How I Met Your Father
2009 · 9m · Spain
Directed by Álec Montoya
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, romance
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, humorous
A short film that plays two versions of the same story side by side — the romantic version parents tell their children and the real one — shot over two nights with a €1,000 budget and a three-person crew.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Montoya built a Sundance-honoured film on €1,000 and two nights of shooting — what makes that achievement meaningful isn't the budget story but the structural idea underneath it, the formal split that lets the comedy and the truth land at the same moment without either canceling the other.
Split-narrative real-vs-told version of one couple's story, €1000 budget, Sundance honorable mention. The format is clever; the comparisons are wildly inflated.
Álex Montoya runs the romantic version and the real version simultaneously rather than sequentially — the comedy lives in both truths occupying the same space. Sundance honorable mention earned; €1,000 well spent.
Festivals
- Sundance Film Festival 2010, Honorable Mention