Alvaro Rodriguez has been writing since childhood and, in reality, did his finest work when he was 11. Without a film digital camera in sight, Rodriguez relied on the written phrase and a Polaroid Button to storyboard the movies in his head. A crash course in leisure writing and enhancing on the University of Texas pupil newspaper and seminars in artistic writing provided extra instruments for the toolbox. When he riffed on a Spanish guitar determine because the hero’s musical theme in cousin Robert Rodriguez’s debut movie, El Mariachi (1992) (Columbia Pictures, 1993), he started a collaboration that has lasted greater than 20 years.
Rodriguez bought his first pitch to Dimension Films, a spaghetti-western prequel to the genre-bending vampire flick From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) known as From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter (1999) (Miramax/Dimension, 2000), which starred Marco Leonardi, Michael Parks, Sonia Braga, Rebecca Gayheart and Danny Trejo, with Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino producing.
Rodriguez co-wrote the wishing-rock youngsters’s film Shorts (2009) (Warner Brothers, 2009), starring James Spader, Jon Cryer, Leslie Mann, and William H. Macy, and adopted that confection with the bloodier Machete (2010) (Fox, 2010) starring Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Jeff Fahey, Don Johnson, and Robert De Niro. Both have been directed by Robert Rodriguez.
As of 2014, he’s writing on the tv collection From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (2014) for the El Rey Network, now in its second season, and is creating function and tv tasks within the United States and Italy.
A frequent panelist and presenter on the Austin Film Festival, he has additionally curated an “Epoca de Oro” Mexican movie collection on the Museum of South Texas History and has been a speaker at schools and universities all through the United States. His border-influenced brief fiction has appeared in a number of publications, each bodily and digital, together with Mulholland Books/Popcorn Fiction, “Along the River” (2011), and the Bram Stoker Award-winning “After Death” (2013).
