Happy Socks and Robert Rodriguez to release short film SOCK’EM DEAD in October2015.
Maverick filmmaker Robert Rodriguez is bringing his action-packed, fierce style to a
partnership project with unique high quality sock and underwear company Happy Socks.
The duo has collaborated on a short film called SOCK’EM DEAD, featuring an A-list
cast and crew with an authentic cinematic style and production value, shot and edited
entirely at Robert Rodriguez’s Austin Texas based full functioning production facility,
Troublemaker Studios.
SOCK’EM DEAD stars Madison Davenport and features some fun celebrity supporting
roles such as long time collaborator Danny Trejo as well as From Dusk till Dawn star
Wilmer Valderrama.
The short film will premiere on October 20th 2015 on www.happysocks.com
To celebrate this collaboration, Happy Socks release a series of three pairs of socks
which Robert Rodriguez designed, available 12th October on www.happysocks.com, at
Happy Socks Concept Stores and selected retailers.
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ABOUT ROBERT RODRIGUEZ
Robert Rodriguez is a film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and
musician. He is also the Founder and Chairman of El Rey Network, the new genre-
busting English-language cable network. While a student at the University of Texas
at Austin in 1991, Robert Rodriguez wrote the script to his first feature film while
sequestered at a drug research facility as a paid subject in a clinical experiment.
That pay-check covered the cost of shooting his film. He planned to make the money
back by selling the film to the Mexican home video market.
The film, “El Mariachi,” went on to win the coveted Audience Award at the Sundance Film
Festival, and became the lowest budget movie ever released by a major studio. Rodri-
guez wrote about these experiences in Rebel Without a Crew, a perennial guide for the
independent filmmaker.
Rodriguez went on to write, produce, direct and edit a series of successful films
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 Lava-
girl in 3D, Grindhouse, Machete and Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For.
In 2000, Rodriguez founded Troublemaker Studios, an Austin, Texas based product-
ion facility of which he is co-owner and president. In 2010, he launched Quick Draw
Productions a development, production and financing company which gives Rodriguez
“green light” capabilities to develop and produce his own media projects across film, tele-
vision, gaming and interactive platforms while closely controlling the creative process.
Robert Rodriguez resides in Austin, Texas.
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