Sundance Film Festival Moves To Boulder

TV & Film

Mar 29

With a name synonymous with film premieres and launching independent film careers, the Sundance Film Festival has been a showcase for launching careers since 1978. This year, the Sundance Film Festival will be hosted in Boulder, Colorado from 2027. According to NPR, the Colorado town “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 Sundance Institute has chosen a great location with a serene natural beauty perfect for independent films and independent film lovers.

Charlene Hoffman, the CEO of Visit Boulder, is excited for the city to host one of the most well-known film festivals. Hoffman recounts, "[Boulder’s] walkable downtown, iconic venues, and beautiful landscape at the base of the Rocky Mountains set the stage for the Sundance Film Festival to flourish in its next chapter." Given how Boulder has been known to have film lovers and other “cinephiles” who have enjoyed skiing in the resort town of Park City, Utah, and has become an annual ritual for film star and filmmaker Robert Redford to visit after founding the nonprofit Sundance Institute to “champion independent film”.

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Robert Redford stated to NPR, "I thought, what if we start a film festival where at least the filmmakers could come and see each other's work and form a community?…. I thought, this is probably not going to work, but slowly it caught on and then it caught fire. Now it's almost out of control, but the mission was accomplished: to create the space for other voices in film to get their stories told and be seen."

Redford’s sentiment has set the precedent for the Sundance community to keep growing and bring their affinity for independent film and stories to a rich community like Boulder, Colorado. Boulder will be at the forefront of hosting a festival that demonstrates ways that will continue to “foster the diverse Sundance community and inspire the next generation of independent filmmakers.”

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