BPS 302: Writing the INSANE World of Machette with Alvaro Rodriguez

Alvaro Rodriguez has been writing since childhood and, in fact, did
his best work when he was 11. Without a movie camera in sight,
Rodriguez relied on the written word and a Polaroid Button to
storyboard the films in his head. A crash course in entertainment
writing and editing at the University of Texas student newspaper
and seminars in creative writing supplied more tools for the
toolbox. When he riffed on a Spanish guitar figure as the hero's
musical theme in cousin Robert Rodriguez's debut film, El Mariachi
(1992) (Columbia Pictures, 1993), he began a collaboration that has
lasted more than two decades.

Rodriguez sold his first pitch to Dimension Films, a
spaghetti-western prequel to the genre-bending vampire flick From
Dusk Till Dawn (1996) called 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 children's movie Shorts (2009)
(Warner Brothers, 2009), starring James Spader, Jon Cryer, Leslie
Mann, and William H. Macy, and followed 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 were directed by Robert Rodriguez.

]As of 2014, he is writing on the television series From Dusk Till
Dawn: The Series (2014) for the El Rey Network, now in its second
season, and is developing feature and television projects in the
United States and Italy.A frequent panelist and presenter at the
Austin Film Festival, he has also curated an "Epoca de Oro" Mexican
film series at the Museum of South Texas History and has been a
speaker at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
His border-influenced short fiction has appeared in multiple
publications, both physical and digital, including Mulholland
Books/Popcorn Fiction, "Along the River" (2011), and the Bram
Stoker Award-winning "After Death" (2013).

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