Alvaro Rodriguez

Alvaro Rodriguez is a writer living and working in Texas and Los Angeles. He is currently on the staff of NBC's Chicago Fire. His credits include the film Machete, the television series From Dusk Till Dawn, and the upcoming feature, The Last Rampage. He attended the beat sheet workshop and master class with Blake Snyder and has led the beat sheet workshop in Austin and San Antonio. Additionally, he has made several appearances on the Austin Film Festival television show On Story on PBS, in conversation with award-winning writers and filmmakers, and has appeared on panels at AFF, the Great American Pitchfest and others.

Beat Sheets

District 9 Beat Sheet

The “District 9” breakdown breakdown was written by Save the Cat!® contributing editor and Austin screenwriter Alvaro Rodriguez. A thought-provoking science fiction allegory with enough clever ideas for 10 films, writers Neil Blomkamp and Terri Tachell’s “District 9” impresses with its fully realized dystopian near-future,...

Alvaro Rodriguez, February 16, 2010 10 8 min read

Beat Sheets

Inglourious Basterds Beat Sheet

Austin Cat! and screenwriter Alvaro Rodriguez tackles Tarantino’s re-imagining of WWII: “Inglourious Basterds” Spoiler Alert! Inglourious Basterds, writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s pulp fantasy, works as both entertainment and damned smart moviemaking. What might seem a sprawling epic at first blush, told in novelistic chapters that veer...

Alvaro Rodriguez, January 25, 2010 39 7 min read