Overview
- The 2026 Sundance Film Festival is underway in Park City for its last Utah run before relocating to Boulder, Colorado next year.
- Many veteran attendees say they will not follow the festival to Colorado, describing the Park City setting as central to Sundance’s identity.
- Festival leaders say a yearlong search led to Boulder after concluding Sundance had outgrown the ski town and become too exclusive for the films to stay center stage.
- Amy Redford says the institute’s lab programs for emerging filmmakers will continue at Sundance Resort in Utah, noting her father had approved the relocation before his death.
- Utah opinion writers fault the state’s political climate and warn of economic and cultural losses, while festival officials maintain the move was not politically driven.