Sundance Film Festival

Park City, the festival's 40-year home, is still in the mix. The other five suitors are Atlanta; Cincinnati; Boulder, Colorado; Louisville, Kentucky and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The future of the iconic film festival in Park City, which has called Utah home since its inception in 1978, is now an open question. Park City Mayor Nann Worel said they “want the Festival to remain here for another 40 years.”

For over 40 years, the Sundance Film Festival has called Park City home. That could change this fall if its contract is not renewed.

Jenna Murray is Eastern Shoshone and a medical student at the University of Utah. Her journey has been complicated by addiction. But now, a short film about her healing process on her ancestral homeland is premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.

Thousands of cinema lovers, Hollywood celebrities, industry executives and filmmakers from around the world have arrived in Park City, Utah, for 10 days of movie watching.

The 40th edition of the famed showcase for independent film kicks off Jan. 18 in Park City and runs till Jan. 28.

The Sundance Institute might be best known for its annual film festival in Park City, Utah, but the screenwriting and directing labs have been just as, if not more, influential in helping to launch the first films of many of Hollywood’s top filmmakers over the past 40 years.

This year’s winners were announced at an awards ceremony Friday afternoon in Park City, Utah, which included an audience prize for the world cinema documentary “20 Days in Mariupol.”

There’s nothing like sharing a laugh or a gasp with several hundred new friends in a dark room.

“Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kind of Left Out” showcases small-town living and yearning for more.

Festivalgoers will see some unexpected turns from stars, like Jonathan Majors as an amateur bodybuilder in “Magazine Dreams,” Emilia Clarke as a futuristic parent in “Pod Generation” and Daisy Ridley as a cubicle worker in “Sometimes I Think About Dying.”

After two pandemic-hobbled years, plans are in motion to return in full force for the festival which runs from Jan. 19-29, 2023.