Robert RodriguezAKA:
Robert Anthony Rodriguez
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06/20/1968 Birthplace:
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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
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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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