Alvaro Rodriguez has been writing since his childhood days, and in fact, he did his best work when he was just 11 years old. Without the need for a movie camera, Rodriguez relied solely on the written word and a Polaroid Button to storyboard the films that played in his imagination.
He went on to take a crash course in entertainment writing and editing at the University of Texas' student newspaper and attended seminars in creative writing, which further equipped him with the tools he needed for his craft.
When he came up with the idea of riffing on a Spanish guitar figure as the hero's musical theme in his cousin Robert Rodriguez's debut film, El Mariachi (1992),he began a collaboration that has lasted over 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),which starred Marco Leonardi, Michael Parks, Sonia Braga, Rebecca Gayheart, and Danny Trejo, with Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino producing.
He co-wrote the wishing-rock children's movie Shorts (2009),starring James Spader, Jon Cryer, Leslie Mann, and William H. Macy, and followed that confection with the bloodier Machete (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).
