Sundance Movie Competition set for its first Colorado version in 2027

The Sundance Movie Competition could also be relocating to Boulder, Colorado, subsequent yr, however it’s sticking with its late January timeframe. Competition organisers stated the 2027 pageant will start on January 21 and run by way of January 31. Additionally they revealed over a dozen key venues, together with 11 theatres the place premieres will likely be held.

Among the official theatres will embody the Boulder Excessive College auditorium, the Casey Center College auditorium, the Cinemark Century Boulder, the Boulder Theatre, and several other College of Colorado Boulder places just like the Macky Auditorium Live performance Corridor and the Roe Inexperienced Theatre.

Sundance Movie Competition and public programming director Eugene Hernandez stated they’re working carefully with the Colorado group. “Nestled on the base of Colorado’s iconic Flatirons, venues throughout town and CU Boulder’s campus present an excellent setting for festivalgoers from the world over to come back collectively, experience artwork, spark dialog and create unforgettable reminiscences,” Hernandez stated.

Final month, the nation’s premier impartial movie pageant wrapped its remaining version in its longtime house of Park Metropolis, Utah. Sundance organisers determined to seek for a brand new house as a result of they stated the pageant had outgrown the ski city that helped put it on the map and developed an air of exclusivity that took focus away from the movies. Boulder emerged as victorious from a yearlong search through which quite a few US cities vied to host.

Robert Redford, who died in September at age 89, established the pageant and improvement packages for filmmakers within the Utah mountains as a haven for impartial storytelling removed from the pressures of Hollywood. Earlier than his loss of life, Redford, who attended the College of Colorado Boulder, gave his blessing for the pageant to relocate.

His daughter Amy Redford, who serves on the Sundance Institute’s board of trustees, informed ‘The Related Press’ final month that she’s excited in regards to the transition, even when it comes with a steep studying curve.

The piece of her father’s legacy that she stated meant essentially 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 kilometres) south of Park Metropolis.