Made on 16mm for only $7,000, “El Mariachi” was all the buzz at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992, winning the Audience Award on its way to earning just over $1 million at the box office.

FILM DESCRIPTION: El Mariachi (Carlos Gallardo) is a traveling guitar player with the modest desire to play music for a living. Looking for a job, he stops at a bar in a tiny town, where his simple, peaceful lifestyle is interrupted. Local hit men, expecting enemy assassin Azul (Reinol Martinez) to invade their town, believe that the visiting musician is the professional killer they are looking for. Unwittingly embroiled in vicious mob warfare, El Mariachi must shoot his way out of town if he is to survive.