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What to know about Boulder, Colorado, the Sundance Film Festival's new home
The Sundance Film Festival is Boulder bound, leaving its home of four decades in Park City, Utah, for a new chapter in neighboring Colorado.
They noted the large student population and campus venues will create new opportunities to engage young people in the event.Nearby nature in the Rocky Mountain foothills offers room for visitors and artists to stretch their legs and draw inspiration from high country scenery. There is not currently a light rail system connecting Denver to Boulder, but a bus runs between the two cities.When Sundance leaders began their search for a new home, they said the festival had outgrown the charming ski town of Park City and developed an air of exclusivity that took focus away from the films. The university kicked the 4/20 weed fest off campus and soaring housing costs — the median home price is now $1.1 million — make living there unattainable for most.A history of film in BoulderFilms have been shown in Boulder since 1898, when the first kinetoscope, a device co-invented by Thomas Edison, showed moving pictures to one person at a time at the Chautauqua Auditorium.Besides Redford, Hollywood names who attended the University of Colorado include Dalton Trumbo, a screenwriter for "Spartacus" and "Roman Holiday" who was among the Hollywood Ten blacklisted for suspected communist sympathies in the late 1940s and 1950s.In the 1970s and 1980s, Boulder locations featured as backdrops in the Woody Allen film "Sleeper" and Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining."
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