Robert Rodríguez

Robert Rodr?guez (born June 20, 1968) is an American film director. He was born in San Antonio, Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin. He is known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent and studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards. Rodr?guez is of Mexican descent and shoots and produces his films in Texas and Mexico, often casting hispanics as his leads.

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Rodr?guez grew up shooting action and horror short films on video, and editing on two VCRs. He made his film festival debut with the short film Bedhead, which attracted enough attention to encourage him to seriously attempt a career as a filmmaker. He went on to shoot the action flick El Mariachi in Spanish, inspired by John Woo films. El Mariachi, which was shot for around $7,000 with money partially raised by volunteering in medical research studies, won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992, and the film, originally intended for the Spanish-language low-budget home-video market, was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Rodr?guez described his experiences making the film in his book Rebel Without a Crew. The book and film inspired legions of hopeful filmmakers, to pick up cameras and make no-budget movies. While very few of those hopefuls went on to successful careers, the film and the book are widely considered important touchstones of the independent film movement of the 1990s. Many people realized for the first time that with only a little money and a lot of hard work and talent, it was possible to make a successful and popular film.

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