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Utah Film Chief Says Efforts To Keep Sundance Is “Like Trying To Woo Back A Long-Term Lover”; Relocation Process In Final Stage Among Six Finalists


Utah Film Chief On Efforts To Keep Sundance Fest With Relocation Process In Final Stage

After Sundance finally said the quiet thing out loud this spring, and declared it was opening up the bidding process for a move once its current contract with Park City finishes, a unified Utah proposal has been seen as the front-runner in what is seen in some circles as a Potemkin exercise. Spencer Cox now having hitched his wagon firmly to the Trump train in the last dash toward Election Day, notions of SLC and Park City being aligned with Sundance’s values of inclusion and the unconventional might prove a harder sell. DEADLINE: This reimagining of Sundance where Salt Lake becomes the hub and Park City the satellite is a script flip that in concept alone plays to the inevitable fact the festival has outgrown the resort town.

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