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Deseret News poll: Utahns disappointed by Sundance exit, but Gov. Cox says new festival will take its place
A recent Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll conducted by HarrisX revealed that 56% of Utahns are disappointed Sundance Film Festival is relocating. Around 4 in 10 Utahns (41%) are not ...
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Sundance Film Festival is leaving Utah. Here’s why, and what Utah offered it to stay.
The Sundance Film Festival is leaving Utah and moving to different mountains. America’s most important launchpad for independent film will abandon its home for Boulder, Colorado, starting in ...
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Gov. Cox alludes to ‘bigger’ event in the works as Sundance Film Festival heads to Colorado
During his monthly press conference on Thursday, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox alluded that some bigger and better may be in the ...
Boulder wins Sundance Film Festival starting in 2027, beating out Utah and Ohio
Gov. Polis and state legislators had been working since last year to shore up incentives for the event, gathering $35 million to dangle in front of festival leaders.
St. George film festival seizing moment to shine as Sundance prepares to leave
As Sundance prepares to move its annual film festival out of Utah, smaller events like the Desertscape International Film Festival are seizing the moment to shi ...
Of course Sundance is fleeing. Utah has become a hateful place
The move to Colorado isn't political; it's personal. It's about protecting future participants and the festival’s integrity ...
Opinion
Fine, Utah will just make its own internationally famous independent film festival
Sounding, in no way, like someone who just got very publicly dumped, Utah governor Spencer Cox has announced that the Sundance Film Festival made a big mistake in leaving him, before then attempting ...
Opinion: What does the loss of a film festival mean?
Some of the money lost when the festival leaves will be mitigated by extra skier tourism days filling hotels and restaurants ...
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Did Utah’s conservative politics drive the Sundance Film Festival to the blue state next door?
Asked Thursday if Utah’s conservative political climate factored into the decision to move the Sundance Film Festival to adjacent blue state Colorado after four decades in the Wasatch Mountains ...
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Sundance Film Festival relocating to Boulder, Colorado, in 2027
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 ...
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Sundance used politics as 'convenient excuse' to leave Utah, Mayor Jenny Wilson says
SALT LAKE CITY — Politics was used as a "convenient excuse" by the Sundance Institute when it chose to move its annual film ...
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Sundance Film Festival is leaving Utah. Here’s why, and what Utah offered it to stay.
The Sundance Film Festival is leaving Utah and moving to different mountains. America’s most important launchpad for independent film will abandon its home for Boulder, Colorado, starting in 2027, the ...