It may not even be autumn, but already, meteorologists are forecasting slick, icy roads in Park City, Utah, next January. After 47 years attracting both independent filmmakers and ravenous film-lovers to Utah’s rugged hills and snow-capped mountains, the Sundance Film Festival will bow its head before moving to Boulder, Colorado, in 2027 — and there’s sure to be enough tears to fill the streets. What was already due to be a melancholic occasion took on an extra layer of emotional resonance this week, when the festival’s co-founder, actor and director Robert Redford, died at his home in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains.

Beginning as the US/Utah Film Festival in 1978, Sundance eventually transformed into the juggernaut it is today, after Redford’s prestigious Sundance Institute — a non-profit organ

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