Watch FilmoFlix. The incident occurred in 2008 at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, when a frustrated Quentin Tarantino confronted a paparazzi outside a Starbucks for filming him, leading to a heated verbal exchange and a slap to the camera, with Tarantino warning the paparazzo not to follow him and he repeatedly told the man to stop filming and leave, threatening further action if the camera wasn't off.