Robert Rodriguez

AKA:
Robert Anthony Rodriguez
Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
06/20/1968
Birthplace:
San Antonio, Texas
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biography
Mexican-American filmmaker Robert Rodriguez burst upon the independent scene with a miraculous $7000 (shooting cost) action film geared for the Mexican Spanish-language video market. Touted as the cheapest film ever released by a studio, "El Mariachi" (1993) was a galvanizing send-up of Mexican action films, American Westerns and tough anti-hero movies informed by such auteurs as Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. It told the fast-moving story of a mariachi musician who arrives in a Mexican border town at the same time as a hit man. Violent complications ensue after they accidentally switch Continued
Credits
Producer
2007
Director
2007
Screenplay
2007
Screenplay
2005
Director
2005
Producer
2005
(TV Show)
2005-2005
Chingon
2005
Screenplay
2003
Producer
2003
Director
2003
Screenplay
2003
Punk No 2
2001
Producer
2001
Director
2001
screenplay
2001
Director
2001
From Story
2001
screenplay
2001
Producer
2001
Screenplay
1998
Director
1998
2nd unit director
1997
Director
1996
screenplay
1996
Executive Producer
1996
Director
1996
Screenplay
1995
Director
1995
screenplay
1995
Producer
1995
Bull Boy
Himself
Screenplay
Director
milestones
Year
Milestone
1982 
Began making films at age 13 (date approximate)
 
Initially rejected by the film program at the University of Texas at Austin
 
Continued making Super 8 movies outside of school
 
Completed nearly 30 short narrative films with borrowed equipment and very little money
 
Featured his youngest siblings in "Austin Stories", an award-winning video anthology which helped him gain admission to film school
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