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Although it was an astonishing debut for a 23-year-old, Rodriguez was already a seasoned filmmaker. The third of ten children born to Cecilio and Rebecca Rodriguez in San Antonio, Texas, he had prepared for film production classes at UT by making a series of his own home movies. Family members were recruited as cast and crew. His three youngest siblings starred in Bedhead (1991), a 16 mm short film which was honored at many national and international festivals. Rodriguez ... blossomed as a cartoonist at UT with Los Hooligans, a comic strip in the Daily Texan featuring characters based on his brothers and sisters.
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Rodriguez grew up shooting action and horror short films on video, and editing on two VCRs. Finally, in the fall of 1990, his entry in a local film contest earned him a spot in the university's film program where he made the award-winning 16mm short, "Bedhead." The film chronicles the amusing misadventures of a young girl whose older brother sports an incredibly tangled mess of hair that she cannot tolerate. The rest of the short film is a humorous account of how the young girl tries to fix her brother's follicle monstrosity when she discovers her telekinetic abilities. Even at this early stage, Rodriguez's trademark style began to emerge: quick cuts, intense zooms, and fast camera movements deployed with a sense of humor that offsets the action.
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Rodriguez became interested in film when at age 7, his father bought a camera and VCR. Rodriguez immediately began making home movies with his nine siblings. He attended St. Anthony Catholic High School where he continued to explore filmmaking, videotaping football games. Unfortunately his focus proved to be incompatible with expectations.
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Rodriguez is regarded as “scrappy, driven, diverse and original,” by Charles Myers, professor and department chair of Communication Arts at Saddleback College. The Texas moviemaker “was able to make the leap from shorts to ultra-low-budget features to full-blown studio pictures while still staying true to his own personal mission and vision as a filmmaker.”
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Universal Pictures has tapped filmmaker Robert Rodriguez to direct a new Barbarella movie which the studio hopes to release in 2008. Rodriguez' Barbarella won't be a remake of the 1968 film starring Jane Fonda, but instead will be a whole new adventure for the sexy heroine.
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