OUR MISSION:
To be the festival that brings you to professional cinema. We want to have the same impact on your career that Sundance Labs had on Quentin Tarantino. I don't know if you know the story but before making Reservoir Dogs. Tarantino in June 1991 shot a short film at Sundance Labs.

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It was a short film with 0 budget, starring him and Steve Buscemi (when he was also unknown). Sundance told Tarantino “We want you to do whatever you want, we want you to experiment, we want you to try something different.” After filming it, several famous directors came to the editing room to see the young director's short film. Tarantino says:

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  -Q.T: “The first group came in, there were a lot of people and everyone hated this sequence. They hated!”
-The director of photography told him “Not only is it a horrible sequence, the worst thing is knowing that it is going to be produced, if you do this in the real market they will fire you on the first try.
-Q.T: “Then another Group came to see my sequence. There was Terry Gilliam, Volker Schlöndorff and Stanley Donen. The editor guy and I were super depressed. Then Gilliam comes and says “ahhhh your sequence is great. Brilliant! Never in my life have black and white been so close.
-Q.T. I couldn't believe that he was talking about the sequence that everyone else hated.
-Gilliam: I'm not saying it's perfect, but you've tried something different and that's what I wanted to see.
-Q.T. Gilliam leaves and Schlöndorff comes.
-Schlöndorff: “Ahhhh the little genius”
-Q.T. The conclusion I drew from this while taking a walk in the woods was that this was going to be my career. There will be people who like what I do and people who won't. I better get used to it and get used to the idea because this is what it is.

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The short film was one of the key moments in the creation of Quentin Tarantino's debut film, Reservoir Dogs. The filmmaker has pointed out on several occasions the importance that event had for him, in which his proposals for long shots in which both the floor and a toilet were seen, were not liked by the veteran directors who supervised the workshop, a exception of one: Terry Gilliam. His support was fundamental in the start of the career of the legendary filmmaker who would become Quentin Tarantino.

Imagine if Tarantino had listened to the first group that viewed his scene. He possibly would have never filmed again.

 

This story is to tell you to follow your instincts. Don't let anyone tell you that what you have done is not good. Make the cinema you would like to see on the big screen. Each person has their own tastes and it is impossible to please everyone. Make you believe better and fight for your dreams.