Rodriguez is an award-winning filmmaker. He completed
his first film, El Mariachi, while attending UT. The film earned
the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and
became the lowest-budget film ever released by a major
studio. He went on to write, produce, direct, edit, and score
films including Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, the Spy
Kids franchise, Machete, and Sin City, among many others.
One of the first filmmakers to embrace digital filmmaking
and 3-D, he is the founder and president of the Austin-based
Troublemaker Studios. Rodriguez also founded and chairs
El Rey Network, an English-language television network
featuring Hispanics on both sides of the camera. He is the
recipient of the 2015 Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate
Citizenship.

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