8:30-11AM (Pan Dulce and coffee; hot chocolate)
Hale Hall MLK Room and Hall of Fame Room
11-12: Lunch (order Adriaticos El Vaquero; juice)
Hale Hall MLK Room
12-1:15: Campus Tour
1:30: Keynote: Alvaro Rodriguez (screenplay and fiction author--and cousin of film director Robert Rodriguez)
MLK Room Hale Hall
3PM: Kids go home
Alvaro Rodriguez is a screenwriter who has co-authored the films Shorts and Machete, both directed by Robert Rodriguez, as well as The Hangman’s Daughter, a prequel to From Dusk Till Dawn. 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 presented on the smuggled subtext(s) in Machete at South Texas College. His border-influenced short fiction has appeared in multiple publications both physical and digital, including Along the River (edited by David Bowles, 2011) and After Death (edited by Eric J. Guignard, 2013). He is currently developing a television series for Robert Rodriguez’s El Rey television network while juggling fatherhood and family in and along the South Texas border.
