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End Of An Indie Era? Sundance Could Leave Park City As Festival Opens Bids For New Location IN 2027; Utah Resort Town Vows Fight To Keep It
In Park City since 1985, the Robert Redford-founded Sundance Film Festival is seeking a reimagining.
With its current contract expiring after the 2026 festival, organizers of the iconic Robert Redford-founded indie film shindig in the Utah mountain town said Wednesday that they have opened a bid process for a possible move to a new city. Still, amidst a slew of Sundance leadership exits and additions over the past five years, the crippling effects of the pandemic on in-person attendance and a rapidly changing media industry, the notion of a new location for the festival outside of Park City has been in works for months. In its heyday, Sundance was best known as the launch pad for auteurs such as Quentin Tarantino, Ava DuVernay, David O. Russell, Nicole Holofcener, Kevin Smith, Ryan Coogler, Steven Soderbergh and Darren Aronofsky among many others.
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