Editing Robert Rodriguez (section)

=== Early career ===
The short film ''Bedhead'' attracted enough attention to encourage him to seriously attempt a career as a filmmaker.<ref>{{cite web  | title = Bedhead (1991)  | publisher = Brian's Robert Rodriguez Page (Geocities) | url = http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Makeup/4303/bedhead.html/index.html  | access-date = August 16, 2007|archive-url=https://archive.today/20091025143613/http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Makeup/4303/bedhead.html/index.html| url-status =dead|archive-date=October 25, 2009}}</ref> He went on to shoot the action flick ''[[El Mariachi]]'' (1992) in Spanish; he shot it for around $7,000 with money raised by his friend Adrian Kano and from payments for his own participation in medical testing studies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmmakermagazine.com/archives/issues/winter1993/film_for_song.php|title=Robert Rodriguez' El Mariachi – Filmmaker Magazine – Winter 1993|website=www.filmmakermagazine.com|date=December 7, 2012 }}</ref> During the process of these medical studies, he met Peter Marquardt, who went on to act in ''El Mariachi''. Rodriguez won the Audience Award for this film at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] in 1993.<ref>[http://history.sundance.org/events/28 1993 Sundance Film Festival] sundance.org</ref> Intended for the Spanish-language low-budget home-video market, the film was "cleaned up" by [[Columbia Pictures]] with post-production work costing several hundred thousand dollars before it was distributed in the United States.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/nov/25/paranormal-activity-box-office-profit | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Paranormal Activity and the myth of the shoestring shocker | date=November 25, 2009 | access-date=May 1, 2010 | first=Tom | last=Shone}}</ref> Its promotion still advertised it as "the movie made for $7,000". Rodriguez described his experiences making the film in his book ''[[Rebel Without a Crew]]'' (1995).<ref>{{cite book |title=Rebel Without a Crew |author=Robert Rodriguez |author-link=Robert Rodriguez |year=1995 |url=https://archive.org/details/rebelwithoutcrew00rodr |url-access=registration |publisher=[[Dutton Books]], [[Plume (publishing)|Plume]] |location=New York |oclc=155845528 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/rebelwithoutcrew00rodr/page/6 6]–11 |isbn=9780452271876 |access-date=June 13, 2012}}</ref>