Robert Rodriguez is a film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and musician.  He is also the Founder, Chairman and CEO of El Rey Network, the new genre-busting English-language cable network set to debut December 2013.

While a student at the University of Texas at Austin in 1991, Robert Rodriguez wrote the script to his first feature film, El Mariachi, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Rodriguez has also written, produced, directed and edited a series of box-office hits, including Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty, the Spy Kids franchise, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Frank Miller’s Sin City, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D, Grindhouse and Machete.