When it was announced earlier this year that the Sundance Film Festival would move to Boulder from its longtime home in Park City, Utah, film studies students at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts Department celebrated.

The Denver Gazette talked to Erin Espelie, chair of the department, after the news of 89-year-old actor/director Robert Redford’s death. As the founder of Sundance, named after his character in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” Redford’s example shines for students, she said.

“I think what Redford offers us is an example of someone who didn’t stay in one place, who didn’t conform to one idea,” Espelie said. “We he came to CU, it was on a baseball scholarship. That’s a great reminder for students to say ‘You start in one place whe

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