The Sundance Film Festival could have been born in Boulder 50 years ago — before it ever existed in Utah.

In a 2000 interview with the Denver Post, actor Robert Redford spilled some tea: In the mid-1970s, he wanted to launch a film festival in Boulder. He met with then-Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm and a couple of filmmakers, including Stan Brakhage.

“I had this idea (for a festival) that had been stewing around,” Redford told the Denver Post in 2000, while doing interviews to promote “The Legend of Bagger Vance.” “I thought I’d throw this feeler out and see if the university was interested. And that would be my gift to the university, even though I didn’t get much out of it and they were not too impressed with me when I was there.”

(Redford attended the University of Colorado Boulder for one

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