Utah Park City- As the Sundance Film Festival was held in 2025, Utah leaders, locals and long -time attendees have a final driving force to pay millions of dollars to maintain the world’s famous film festivals so that the director can take root.
As a last ditch to persuade thousands of festival players to persuade the Festival leadership and the state officials to be kept in the 41 -year hometown, we have a bright yellow sticker on the winter coat that reads “Utah’s sundance in the sundance.”
Governor Spencer Cox said he would not throw away as much money as other states who wish to be attracted to the Utah Gai Festival. His office now urges the legislature to pioneer $ 3 million for the sundance in the weekly budget a few weeks before the Independent Film Festival has chosen a house for the next decade.
It can maintain a small position in the picturesque Park City, keep the center of nearby Salt Lake City, or move to Cincinnati or Colorado in 2027.
“Sundance is Utah and Utah is a sundance. “You can’t separate these two,” Cox said.
Festival director Eugene Hernandez said last week that he did not make a final decision. It is expected that there will be a presentation until early spring this year.
Colorado is trying to make the proposal more sweet. The state is considering how to give up up to $ 34 million in tax incentives for film festivals such as Sundance by 2036.
Cincinnati has approved a resolution that allocates $ 2.5 million to the sundance if the festival leaders move to the southwest of Ohio. But money may not be the ultimate lottery.
Sundance leaders worryed that the festival surpassed the ski town that had been on an edge map decades ago and that the monopoly air that focused on the film developed. The ideal house will allow Sundance to be more centralized, cheaper and more accessible to everyone who enjoys independent films.
Some festival players and industry leaders are worried that sending dances will lose their identity in an idyllic mountain.
The main donors of the festival, Roger and Carin Ehrenberg, said they would stop attending regularly if the festival was outside the Utah. Sundance said to the New York City Park Ae -ju chair, “Magic Experience.”
CARIN EHRENBERG said, “If we go to Shinshi Nati, we will probably go. But that’s going to go, but it will not be a regular thing, ”Carin Ehrenberg said.
The couple said they would continue to donate even if they did not attend.
The 19 -year lovely memories of Sundance helped Dr. Rhonda Taubin to move his family with HEBER CITY, Park City’s neighboring village in Atlanta. She has nothing to do with the film industry, but she has become a passionate advocate to keep the festival in her new home.
This year, her and her friends distributed thousands of “Keep in Utah” and the other read “Nohio for Sundance”.
“I’m not a movie buff, but the other girlfriend doesn’t want to end everything we have experienced as a woman as a mother, wife, or daughter.” Said. “We are watching a provocative film that lets us talk and think about things we have never thought of before. Utah will suffer a big loss without a conversation. ”
When the sundance stays at Utah, the festival’s former director John Cooper said that major adjustments are needed to improve the transportation between Salt Lake City and Park City and make the accommodation for filmmakers more cheaper.
Cooper, who led the festival from 2009 to 2020, said it was sad to see that the sundance was far from the original vision of the actor and filmmaker Robert Redford. The name came from the characters of the Redford’s Redford’s 1969 film “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid”.
Cooper said in the Associated Press: “My role was the goalkeeper of Robert Redford and his legacy. But I think it can go anywhere.
In this week’s red carpet, many people have been divided into whether sundance should stay.
Actress Elijah Wood urged the festival to remain in Park City, saying that the location is part of DNA.
Others were open before. Tessa Thompson, an actor who works at the Sundance Institute’s board of directors, said the festival can maintain identity in a new city.
Thompson said, “Sundance is more related to the spirit and community, and I think it is an evergreen tree.
