Quentin Tarantino is an Americian Film director who made his advancement into the film industry, through short film. Quentin began his career in the early 1990's as an independant film director.
My Best Friend's Birthday, 1979 was the first short film Tarantino directed. The film is black and white and was co- written with Craig Hanman. The film's budget was $5,000 and was orginally a 30-40 page script, which evolved to 80 pages due to the passion for the narrative Quentin developed whilst working on the film.
The film is described by Tarinto as his 'film school' as it was his experiemental ground and through the film. The film displays basic editing techniques such as: shot reverse shot.
The original cut was about 70 minutes long but due to a fire only 36 minutes of the film survived. Although the accident, the film went onto to form the basis of screenplay True Romance, written by Tarintino.
My Best Friend's Birthday Part 1
My Best Friend's Birthday Part 2
My Best Friend's Birthday Part 3
My Best Friend's Birthday Part 4
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