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Sundance in Cincinnati? Hollywood Worries Film Festival Won’t Be the Same Without Park City
As Sundance considers moving out of Utah, the indie film community weighs how much of its identity is rooted in Park City.
The Utah native has attended the Sundance Film Festival for nearly 20 years, waiting in long lines as the snow fell around him, shivering in the cold in hopes of catching a hot new movie. But even as Webley prepares to welcome an influx of friends and family staying with him during the two-week showcase of indie films, he’s also grappling with the prospect that Sundance may soon be leaving the state it has called home for nearly half a century. What Robert Redford started in 1978 as something edgy and offbeat changed as carmakers, fashion labels and credit card companies threw parties and set up gifting suites around town that were more interested in attracting movie stars than supporting moviemaking.
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