Money to make his "biggest" film yet: a 16mm short comedy/fantasyĬalled Bedhead (1991). Afterīeing accepted into the film department, Robert takes $400 of his own School's top students and allows Robert to enter the program. Three, in fact: trilogy of short movies called Renowned film department, he proves his worth the only way he knows When low academic grades threaten to keep him out of UT Austin's His movies win every local film competition and festival. Than I ever would into an essay." He starts his own comic strip, "Los Himself explains, " knew I'd put more effort into a movie In term papers, he is allowed to hand in "term movies" because, as he In the neighborhood as "the kid who makes movies". Of whom desperately want to star in the next one. Technological wonder: a VCR, and with it (as a gift from the At the end of theĭecade, his father, a salesman, brings home the latest home-made ![]() Largest cast and crew at his disposal: his family. He uses propsįrom around the house, settings from around town, and makes use of the The genres are unlimited:Īction, sci-fi, horror, drama, stop-motion animation. In a short amount of time, young Robert finds the family's old Super-8įilm camera and makes his first films. Treats them to a healthy dose of Hollywood's "Golden Age" wonders, fromīuster Keaton. Weekly trips to San Antonio's famed Olmos Theatre movie house and The 1970s, instills a sense of cinema in her children by taking them on His mother, not a fan of the "dreary" cinema of ![]() Pencil-in-hand doodling some abstract (yet astounding) dramatic feature An artist by nature, he was very rarely seen sans The shuffle, Robert always stood out as a very creative and very active Many a child would easily succumb to a Jan Brady sense of being lost in ![]() Was the middle child of a family that would include 10 children. Proclaim "I can do that." This young man said something different: "I None were as captivated as the 12-year-old Rodriguez, who sat with hisįriends in a crowded cinema. Of all the people to be amazed by the images of USA, to Rebecca (Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Robert Anthony Rodriguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas,
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