Sherman's way

Craig Michael Saavedra is an American film producer, director, writer and co-owner of New York and Los Angeles-based production company Starry Night Entertainment. Saavedra was born in Los Angeles, California in 1963 to Hector John Saavedra, a commercial artist of Mexican descent, and Kathleen... O'Connell, a wallpaper hanger, of English-Irish extraction. He attended kindergarten through second grade in the San Fernando Valley community of Encino. In 1971, the family moved to Thousand Oaks, California where he attended Newbury Park High School along with his six siblings, among them cartoonist/illustrator Scott Saavedra and KFI AM 640 radio personality Neil Saavedra . Shortly after graduating high school in 1981, Saavedra found employment at Universal Studios in Hollywood as a tour guide. In the evenings, he attended film courses at UCLA’s Extension program. It was through this program that he met a film executive who eventually hired him as a story analyst at producer Jerry Weintraub’s Weintraub Entertainment Group.
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