SALT LAKE CITY — State and local leaders say they are "disappointed" in the Sundance Institute's decision Thursday to move the iconic Sundance Film Festival out of its original home. But they're already exploring what's next — which may include a rival film festival — as Sundance announced it is heading to Boulder, Colorado. "We have already begun meeting with partners, stakeholders and creative voices to create a new festival — one that honors our legacy and writes the next chapter of independent film in Utah," said Utah Gov. Spencer...

A banner announcing the Sundance Film Festival on Main Street in Park City on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Sundance announced Wednesday that the 2022 film festival is canceling its in-person events and going online only. After more than 40 years in Utah, the Sundance Film Festival is officially moving to Boulder, Colorado, in 2027, the Sundance Institute announced on Thursday. “After a thoughtful and thorough process to identify the future location of the Sundance Film Festival, today the nonprofit Sundance Institute’s Board of Trustees is proud to announce that Boulder,...

For Barb Guy and Chris Rohrer, two Utah movie buffs who have attended The Sundance Film Festival for the past 25 years, the distress over the event’s impending departure poured out as individual words. The Sundance Institute announced Thursday that after 2026, the festival that has existed in Utah for over 40 years will move on to Boulder, Colorado. The final decision came after a yearlong bid process. The other two finalists to host the festival were Cincinnati, Ohio, and a joint bid between Park City and Salt Lake City....

BOULDER, Colo. (KRDO) - The Sundance Film Festival has announced that it's moving to Colorado. While the festival will move forward in Park City, Utah in 2026, Boulder will host for the very first time in 2027. "Boulder offers small-town charm with an engaged community, distinctive natural beauty, and a vibrant arts scene, making it the ideal location for the Festival to grow," organizers said in a release. According to our partners at 9News in Denver, the festival has laid stake in Utah since 1978. Organizers said they were leaving...

The Sundance Film Festival announces its new home: Boulder, Colorado The Sundance Film Festival will have a new home starting in 2027: Boulder, Colorado. The Sundance Institute made the announcement Thursday after a year-long process. "Boulder offers small-town charm with an engaged community, distinctive natural beauty, and a vibrant arts scene, making it the ideal location for the Festival to grow," the institute wrote in a press release. The announcement says the festival will center in downtown Boulder, at theater and venues around the pedestrian-only Pearl Street Mall, as well...

It’s official: Starting in 2027, Sundance will move to Boulder, Colorado—and luckily, not Cincinnati, the possibility of which was a major concern for attendees this year. After an extensive search that started in April of 2024, the festival revealed Boulder, Cincinnati, and nearby Salt Lake City as its the three new potential host cities. Of those, the Colorado hamlet won out. “It became clear that Boulder is the ideal location in which to build our Festival's future, marking a key strategic step in its natural evolution,” said Ebs Burnough, Sundance...

PARK CITY — The Sundance Film Festival will be packing up and heading east to Colorado after over 40 years in Utah. The Sundance Institute announced Thursday that it will relocate the massive film festival to Boulder, Colorado, spitting away from the state it originated in. "Boulder is an art town, tech town, mountain town, and college town," Sundance Institute CEO Amanda Kelso said in a prepared statement. "It is a place where the Festival can build and flourish. ... We can't imagine a better fit than Boulder." Rumors swirled...

After a yearlong search, the Sundance Film Festival announced Thursday that its new home will be Boulder, Colorado, keeping Sundance in the mountains but moving it out of Park City, the Utah ski town that had for decades provided the premier independent film gathering its picturesque snowy backdrop. Organizers said that after 40 years in the mountains, the festival had outgrown Park City, and lacked the necessary theaters or affordable housing to continue hosting what has become one of North America’s most sprawling movie events. Sundance had narrowed down the...

The Sundance Film Festival is getting on its horse and moving to Boulder. After months of multimillion-dollar funding appeals from cities across the country, the nonprofit film festival board announced Thursday that the famed event will move from its longtime home in Park City, Utah, to Colorado beginning in 2027. Boulder beat out a combined bid from Park City and Salt Lake City, as well as one from Cincinnati, which revealed earlier that it was no longer in the running. The city is now set to host the event from...