By the time Brad Olch took office as mayor of Park City in early 1990, Robert Redford’s film festival was a burgeoning event on the international circuit and already seemed destined to stand among the elite festivals in the world.

It would not be renamed the Sundance Film Festival until the next year, but the event had started to bring a touch of glitz to Park City.

Redford, who died on Tuesday, was a Hollywood legend, and Sundance began to help define the community’s identity as both the festival and Park City rose in stature in the 1990s.

Olch served 12 years as the mayor, ending in early 2002, weeks before the Winter Olympics, and his time in office largely tracked with Sundance’s growth into the independent-film spectacle that it is today.

Sundance “really put Park City on the map,

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