Jorge "Fish" Rodríguez is a Latin Grammy Award-winner

music video director A music video director is the head of music video production. The director conceives of videos' artistic and dramatic aspects while instructing the musical act, technical crew, actors, models, and dancers. They may or may not be in collaboration ...

. Rodríguez was awarded the Best Short Form Music Video at the

Latin Grammy Awards of 2006 The 7th Annual Latin Grammy Awards were held for the first time in New York City, NY. The awards show was held at Madison Square Garden on Thursday, November 2, 2006. Shakira was the big winner winning Album of the Year, one of four awards that ...

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Atrévete-te-te "Atrévete-te-te" ( en, "Dare Yourself-self-self") is a Grammy-nominated song by Puerto Rican urban duo Calle 13 from their eponymous debut album '' Calle 13'', released in February 2006, by White Lion Records. It is one of the duo's best known ...

", co-directed by

Gabriel Coss Gabriel Coss is a Latin Grammy Award and a Regional Emmy Award-winner music video director. Coss also has credits for directing the documentaries ''Aljuriya'' (2004), ''Sonó, Sonó, Tité Curet!!!'' (2011) and ''Armonía'' (Doctv Latinoamérica 20 ...

and performed by Calle 13. Rodríguez challenged the types of images seen in mainstream hip-hop videos with "Atrévete-te-te", with René Pérez (Residente), the band's lead singer, not wearing massive gold chains or drinking bottles of champagne, and questioning the current lifestyle of Puerto Ricans who try to emulate the American lifestyle. Rodríguez relied on tutorials to learn film techniques, and studied sculpture and specialized in image and design. Rodríguez became involved in film after a trip to Argentina, while drinking at a bar discussing politics and Latin American history with locals. Through that conversation he became aware of South America’s "

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" during which thousands of students, intellectuals, and professionals were targeted by the Argentine government, and became interested in creating a documentary about the Plaza de Mayo massacre. Rodríguez also has credits for his work in the

art direction Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the visi ...

department of the films '' The Losers'', in 2010, and '' Fast Five'' and '' The Rum Diary'' in 2011; and the TV Series '' Off the Map'' and ''

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''. In 2010, a documentary co-directed by Richard Santiago and Rodríguez about Puerto Rico boxers was shown at the Institute for Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, "these boxers are like Tibetan monks... no drinking, no sex, etc. to prepare for fighting." said Santiago about the documentary. Rodríguez also directed the music video for " Pasarela" by Puerto Rican rapper Dalmata. Rodríguez chronicled in 2011 a trip to

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, one of the most inaccessible countries of the world, for the magazine El Punto Es. Rodríguez did the art direction for the short film ''La Vida Sexual de los Camarones'' (''The Sexual Life of Shrimp'').

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