He also plans to sell it to the straight-to-video Spanish film market. It will be called El Mariachi, and because Rodriguez expects it to not be very good, it will serve as a practice movie. After visiting a movie set in Ciudad Acusa in the spring of 1991, Rodriguez decides to write and direct his own feature movie. In school, Rodriguez meets Carlos Gallardo, an aspiring Mexican filmmaker, and their friendship continues even when Carlos returns home to Ciudad Acusa and Rodriguez enters University of Texas at Austin. This is why, with no formal directing training, Rodriguez starts winning awards for one of his home movies, "Bedhead," starring his younger sibling. All these years of practicing his craft using only elementary equipment pay off because he becomes better at directing and editing. He is a patient child who uses his siblings as actors in his home movies, and as years go by he perfects his editing techniques, thanks to the family's two VCRs. His fascination with movies and filmmaking starts when he is a just child. Rodriguez is from a large, Texas-based family with Latino origins. This is an excerpt from the filmmaker's diary, so the story is told in the first person and gives a detailed and almost daily account of what Rodriguez has to go through to achieve his dream of making a feature film. Rebel Without a Crew tells the story of how Robert Rodriguez wrote and directed the movie El Mariachi, which is now considered a Hollywood classic, when he was only 23 years old and had a limited budget of $7,000.
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