Bedhead has been included as a bonus feature on both the VHS tape and the DVD releases of El Mariachi as well as the entire Mexico Trilogy (including Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico), and has therefore attracted a wider audience than most short films usually receive.
The short film was entered into several film festivals, where it won cash prizes in competitions. Rodriguez then used that money to partially fund El Mariachi.
Youngest sister Maricarmen Rodriguez portrayed Rebecca's fashion-obsessed little sister.
Bedhead was a student film project by Rodriguez while he was at the University of Texas at Austin.
Rodriguez shot the film with his brothers and sisters as actors and with his family and friends as crew.