The Sundance Film Festival could also be beginning anew in Boulder, Colorado, subsequent yr, however it’s sticking with its late January time-frame. Festival organizers on Tuesday mentioned the 2027 competition will start Jan 21 and run via Jan 31. They additionally revealed over a dozen key venues together with 11 theaters the place premieres can be held.
Some of the official theaters will embrace the Boulder High School auditorium, the Casey Middle School auditorium, the Cinemark Century Boulder, the Boulder Theater and a number of other University of Colorado Boulder places just like the Macky Auditorium Concert Hall and the Roe Green Theatre. Sundance Film Festival and public programming director Eugene Hernandez mentioned they’re working carefully with the Colorado group.
“Nestled at the base of Colorado’s iconic Flatirons, venues across the city and CU Boulder’s campus provide an ideal setting for festivalgoers from across the world to come together, revel in art, spark conversation, and create unforgettable memories,” Hernandez mentioned in an announcement.
Last month the nation’s premier impartial movie competition wrapped its closing version in its longtime house of Park City, Utah. Sundance organizers determined to seek for a brand new house as a result of they mentioned the competition had outgrown the ski city it helped placed on the map and developed an air of exclusivity that took focus away from the movies. Boulder emerged victorious from a yearlong search during which quite a few U.S. cities vied to host.
Robert Redford, who died in September at age 89, established the competition and growth packages for filmmakers within the Utah mountains as a haven for impartial storytelling removed from the pressures of Hollywood. Before his demise, Redford, who attended the University of Colorado Boulder, gave his blessing for the competition to relocate.
His daughter Amy Redford, who serves on the Sundance Institute’s board of trustees, instructed The Associated Press final month that she’s excited concerning the transition, even when it comes with a steep studying curve.
The piece of her father’s legacy that she mentioned meant probably the most to him — the institute’s lab packages for rising screenwriters and administrators — will stay in Utah, on the resort he based, about 34 miles (54 kilometers) south of Park City.
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