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Robert Anthony Rodríguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Sin City, Planet Terror, and Machete. He is a friend and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.
Rodríguez was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Mexican-American parents Rebecca (née Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez, a salesman. He began his interest in film at age 11 when his father bought one of the first VCRs, which came with a camera.
While attending St. Anthony High School, he was commissioned to videotape the school's football games. According to his sister he was fired soon after for shooting them with a cinematic style, getting shots of parents' reactions and the ball traveling through the air instead of shooting the whole play. There he met Carlos Gallardo; they both shot films on video throughout high school and college. After graduating Rodriguez went to the College of Communication at the University of Texas where he also developed a love of cartooning. His grades were not high enough to get into the school's film program, so he invented a daily comic strip entitled Los Hooligans with many of the characters based on his siblings – in particular, one of his sisters, Maricarmen. The comic proved to be quite successful, running for three years in the student newspaper The Daily Texan while Rodríguez continued to make short films.[citation needed]
Actors: Jeffrey Weissman (actor), West Ramsey (actor), Douglas Olsson (actor), Christopher Damm (actor), Jonny Beltran (actor), Bob Ross (actor), Sarah Poynter (actress), Jef Derderian (actor), Jeff Moore (actor), John Scacco (actor), Isaac Piche (editor), Isaac Piche (director), Isaac Piche (writer), Nick Corvello (actor), Lisa Rentuor (actress),
Plot: Michael Rodriquez comes home from 2 tours of combat duty to find his hometown on the brink of self-destruction. A corrupt politician has sold out his small farming town to an evil corporation (Poseidon) controlling most of the county, and the states water. The starving community is collapsing, while the corporation buys up their land. The political shield behind Poseidon's death grip on water is a small, endangered fish. Poseidon uses the fish to leverage the congressional consent to construct 3 brand new dams. This only motivates a beautiful biologist by the name of Meghan Conner's to find a way to save the fish and transplant them, removing them from the endangered species list and taking away Poseidon's powers.
Genres: Action, Drama,Actors: Michael LiCastri (producer), Michael LiCastri (writer), Michael LiCastri (director), Michael LiCastri (actor), Croix Provence (actress), Chris Hestand (editor), Chris Hestand (producer), Chris Metz (actor), Francisco Martins (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Edward James Olmos (producer), Alexa Vega (actress), Douglas Spain (actor), Jesse Garcia (actor), Dan Wedeking (actor), Laura Harring (actress), Efren Ramirez (actor), Rick Shuster (actor), Corey Browne (actor), Bruce French (actor), Michael Peña (actor), Holmes Osborne (actor), Edward James Olmos (actor), Edward James Olmos (director), Dorothy Amos (costume designer),
Plot: Based on a true story, student activist and Mexican-American Paula Crisostomo (Vega), tired of being treated unequally, decides to take action and stage a walkout at five East Los Angeles high schools in 1968, to protest educational conditions and complain of anti-Mexican educational bias along with some 10,000 students. Paula Crisostomo (now Romo) is not Mexican- American--she is Filipina-American. She and her husband, then boyfriend were roommates of mine in college. We are very good friends and I see her often.
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