Robert Redford, the charismatic actor and director whose Sundance Film Festival is moving to Colorado in 2027, died Sept. 16 in his Sundance, Utah, home. He was 89.

Born Charles Robert Redford Jr. in Santa Monica, California, the future actor was more into art and sports growing up in Van Nuys. He went to the University of Colorado’s flagship campus in Boulder to play baseball in 1955 but was kicked out for excessive partying.

His advocacy helped fuel the Sundance Film Festival, founded to identify and support new artistic voices. The festival has been centered on Park City, Utah, since its founding but is slated to move to Boulder in 2027.

"If we focused on independent films, the smaller films that were more diverse, then we would in a way keep something alive. It was not an insurgency

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