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Robert Rodriguez

About this Artist

Robert Rodriguez is a film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician.

His first film, El Mariachi, was made for $7,000 with Rodriguez as the entire crew. El Mariachi, went on to win the coveted Audience Award at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, and became the lowest budget movie ever released by a major studio. Rodriguez wrote about these experiences in Rebel Without a Crew, a perennial guide for the independent filmmaker.

Rodriguez went on to write, produce, direct and edit a series of successful films including Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty, the Spy Kids franchise, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Frank Miller’s Sin City, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D, Grindhouse, and Machete.

He collaborated with director James Cameron on the film adaptation of Alita: Battle Angel based on Yukito Kishiro’s manga. In 2017, Rodriguez, alongside his sons Racer and Rebel, formed Double R Productions, where they created a new $7,000 feature Red 11, a state of the art VR live-action short called the The Limit and a feature film, We Can Be Heroes, in partnership with Netflix. We Can Be Heroes has become one of Netflix’s most popular films of all time. He recently directed an episode of The Mandalorian and the Star Wars series The Book of Boba Fett. He recently released the thriller Hypnotic, starring Ben Affleck, and the reboot of Spy Kids, Spy Kids: Armageddon.

He resides in Austin, Texas.