By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and MEAD GRUVER The Sundance Film Festival is Boulder bound, leaving its home of four decades in Park City, Utah, for a new chapter in neighboring Colorado. Organizers

The venerable film festival is leaving its original locale for a different set of mountains—and not Cincinnati.

The Sundance Film Festival announced on Thursday it is moving location from Park City, Utah, to the university town of Boulder, Colorado, starting with its 2027 edition. The film festival, which was co-founded by Hollywood star Robert Redford in Salt Lake City back in 1978,

Following a yearlong evaluation process, the Sundance Institute announced Thursday the film festival will be leaving Utah, its home for over 40 years.

The Sundance Film Festival will be moving to Boulder, Colorado in 2027 after being held near Salt Lake City, Utah for four decades.

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Sundance Film Festival, a cultural and economic cornerstone of Utah for more than four decades, will relocate to Boulder, Colorado, beginning in 2027.

After four decades in the small Utah ski town, the country’s preeminent film festival is packing its bags for Boulder for the 2027 fest and beyond.

The Sundance Film Festival will be making a move to Boulder, Colorado, in 2027 after more than 40 years in Park City, Utah, organizers announced Thursday.

Sundance Film Festival officials say affordability and accessibility were the main variables driving their decision to relocate to Boulder, not politics.