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After four decades in the small Utah ski town, the country’s preeminent film festival is packing its bags for Boulder for the 2027 fest and beyond.
Gov. Polis and state legislators had been working since last year to shore up incentives for the event, gathering $35 million to dangle in front of festival leaders.
Sounding, in no way, like someone who just got very publicly dumped, Utah governor Spencer Cox has announced that the Sundance Film Festival made a big mistake in leaving him, before then attempting ...
After spending 40 years in Utah, the Sundance Film Festival will be relocating to Boulder, Colorado; organizers said the festival had outgrown Park City.
Some of the money lost when the festival leaves will be mitigated by extra skier tourism days filling hotels and restaurants ...
Co-founded by filmmaker Sterling Van Wagenen, Sundance opened in Salt Lake City in August 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival. Sundance Film Festival 2025: All the best movies we saw, ranked ...
The move to Colorado isn't political; it's personal. It's about protecting future participants and the festival’s integrity ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Politics was used as a "convenient excuse" by the Sundance Institute when it chose to move its annual film ...
Asked Thursday if Utah’s conservative political climate factored into the decision to move the Sundance Film Festival to adjacent blue state Colorado after four decades in the Wasatch Mountains ...
The Sundance Film Festival is leaving Utah and moving to different mountains. America’s most important launchpad for independent film will abandon its home for Boulder, Colorado, starting in 2027, the ...