Early the next morning, Simon and Janet flew together to Utah.

As the plane took off, Janet asked about yesterday, "So, how was the conversation with Fox?"

Feeling that the plane was no longer jolting, Simon unbuckled his seatbelt, and Peter Sanders saw a series of rapidly changing expressions on his driver's license yesterday afternoon, and shook his head with a smile: "You know, I want to sign a share contract, and Sanders insists on buying out, so it may have to wait for Sundance, and hopefully things will turn around then." ”

Yesterday, although Simon explained to Peter Sanders in detail the distribution strategy of using the gimmick of his age to promote, Peter Sanders was obviously a little moved, but in the end, he still did not agree, and did not even give a new increase.

Simon also realized that it was most likely because Peter Sanders did not have enough authority.

Although Peter Sanders is the vice president and has a certain amount of authority, in terms of films, the power to make decisions is still in the hands of President Ronald Sandberg.

Janet obviously just asked casually, and when she heard Simon's negative answer, she didn't seem to be discouraged, and said, "It's a big deal, we'll do it ourselves, maybe we can accumulate some experience." ”

Simon smiled and nodded in agreement.

Speaking of which, it's not impossible to do the distribution yourself, but it's a waste of time to do so.

It only took Simon four months to produce "Lola Run", but it is estimated that it will take a year or two to complete the distribution of the film in person. Moreover, the final income is likely to be better than selling the film directly to the film company, which is completely outweighed by the loss.

After chatting casually, Simon opened a copy of The Hollywood Reporter that he brought on the plane, and was about to flip through it, when he suddenly remembered something and asked Janet next to him: "Alas, I am suddenly a little curious, why is Catherine's expression always so strange when she looks at me these days?"

Janet blinked innocently in her eyes, "Huh?"

Noticing Janet's appearance, Simon was even more suspicious, staring at her and saying, "Did you say anything to Catherine?"

Janet's eyes flickered a few times again, and she became even more innocent: "What can I say, I'm too lazy to say you." ”

"This must be what he said," Simon looked at Janet's appearance at this time, more determined, and rolled up the newspaper in his hand with a gesture, and raised it: "Recruit yourself, what bad things have you said about me?"

Seeing Simon raise the newspaper, Janet's small body shrank towards the seat, but she raised her thin white neck, looking like she would rather die than give in, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "No!"

With this shout, all the passengers in the cabin looked over.

Feeling the gaze of everyone crusading against the domestic violence man, Simon had to sit down in a daze, reopen the newspaper, and pretend that nothing happened.

After a while, Janet's body was pressed over again, and her little paws scratched Simon lightly a few times, seeing that he didn't react, she hesitated, and then came to the man's ear: "I, I just told Kate about you bullying me all night on Christmas Eve." ”

Simon looked puzzled: "What, bullying?"

Janet raised her pretty little hand and shook it in front of Simon, and said, "That's it, that's it, five times." ”

Simon's mind circled around his brain circuit several times before he understood what this 'five times' meant, and he immediately leaned back in his seat with a dejected face, feeling the urge to jump off the plane.

Alas.

Ruined.

It's all ruined.

It's unladylike to meet someone.

In Catherine's mind, she must have become an overindulgent animal.

Although I have already identified the woman next to me, no one wants to become this image in the hearts of other women.

Why am I so miserable?

Janet saw Simon's dejected appearance, and posted a post on him again, and said in a greasy voice: "Simon, don't worry, I've already told Kate, I don't mind." ”

Simon said weakly: "You didn't tell Kate, I suddenly caught a cold in the middle of the night that day, and I had a serious fever, and I refused to go to the hospital in a small mood, and you did your best to stay by my bedside for a day and a night, you are a model good girlfriend." ”

Janet blinked, "Hey, didn't I catch a cold?"

Simon weakly raised his hand to the passing flight attendant: "Miss, can you help me change positions? I need to calm down." ”

......

With the snow in Salt Lake City and the plane landing on a runway surrounded by pure white, Simon and Janet then rented a car and drove east along the mountain road for nearly an hour to Park City, where the Sundance Film Festival is held.

Speaking of which, the Sundance Film Festival first originated as a film festival in Salt Lake City in the late '70s before moving to Park City.

Moreover, as the founder, Robert Redford's original intention to launch the Sundance Film Festival was not too simple.

The Hollywood superstar bought a ski resort in Park City and also built a resort, but it didn't run well. In order to change the situation, Robert Redford decided to emulate the experience of Aspen, another ski town in the United States, by holding an art festival to stimulate the local tourism market and support the development of independent films.

Over the next two decades, the Sundance Film Festival has grown in influence, and many of the world-renowned Hollywood directors have emerged through the Sundance platform.

Of course, that's all for later.

It was 1987 and Park City was still unknown, and the Sundance Film Festival was nowhere near as influential as it was later.

Utah belongs to the U.S. Mountain Time Zone, which is an hour ahead of California.

Simon and Janet rushed to Park City, where it was past twelve o'clock in the afternoon.

Janet booked a place to stay at a resort on the east side of Park City, with more than a dozen exquisite wooden apartments scattered among the mountains and forests, connected by flat asphalt roads, each beautiful and easily accessible.

Of course, it's certainly not cheap.

Simon is now largely penniless, and several credit cards are all overdrawn. However, he still had to pay for the resort apartment, just to put his fingerprint on Janet's IOU.

Occasionally, I think that if I can't make money soon, I may really have to pay off my debts with Xi'er Westeros.

After settling in and having lunch, the two hurried to the Sundance Institute at the foot of Park City West Ski Resort to go through some necessary procedures to participate in the film festival, and also delivered a copy of "Lola Run" to the organizers.

Speaking of which, today is January 15th, and Simon is definitely the last exhibitor to submit a copy of the film.

As early as December last year, the Sundance Film Festival announced the list of shortlisted films in the two major categories of feature films and documentaries. If it weren't for Robert Redford, the chairman of the film festival, and the fact that Sundance is still far less competitive than it was later, "Lola Run" would definitely not be eligible to participate in the exhibition.

After completing the registration procedures, Simon had just left the gate of the institute when he happened to meet Robert Redford and his party walking from the parking lot.

"Hey, Simon, you're finally here. David just asked about you. ”

Greeting Simon warmly, Robert Redford introduced him and Janet to several people around him, all of whom were judges of the festival.

Simon inquired in advance that the current Sundance only has two units: feature film and documentary, and each unit has five judges, a total of ten people. Robert Redford was only followed by four people, which was obviously not all.

And, listen to the names of four people, David Anson, Landa Haynes, Kit Carson, Jane Benix.

These people should all be film and television practitioners.

However, Simon didn't know any of them.

Actually, this is not surprising.

Even more than ten years later, the judges of the Sundance Film Festival are all 'unpopular', far less than a series of big names at several major film festivals.

With Robert Redford's introduction, Simon and Janet shook hands with everyone one by one.

Hearing that one of the judges named David Anson had just mentioned himself, during the handshake, Simon also looked at each other a few times and found that David Anson was also looking at him curiously.

"We're going to see the shortlisted films, and since you've sent the copies, it's just so happening, everyone is very curious about your films. ”

After introducing each other, Robert Redford patted Simon on the shoulder again, said this, and said a few more words, and walked into the institute with the other four people.