Alberto Rodríguez studied image and sound at the Faculty of Information Sciences of the University of Seville. His film career began at an amateur level, in 1997, with the short film Banco, which he shot on video with Santiago Amodeo, with a budget of only 30,000 pesetas. The film won 15 awards and the success allowed them to shoot a new version in cinemascope in 1999 with a budget of four million.