BOULDER - Deadline, an entertainment and Hollywood news site, reported earlier this week that “there are louder and louder whispers that the very blue city in the blue-ish state has a deal to become Sundance’s new home in the bag.” Boulder is one of three finalist cities that could be chosen to host the film festival starting in 2027. The finalists were announced last September.
A decision on where the Park City, Utah-based festival will move to has not yet been officially announced — the decision is expected to be made public in late March or early April. However, Deadline reported that representatives from Boulder were in Park City last weekend to “case the joint.”
Deadline reporter Mike Fleming Jr. wrote that the reps from Boulder “came dangling a big tax credit rumored to be around $34 million and a plan to have a more centralized festival as is the case with Telluride, Toronto and Cannes.”
Boulder, Cincinnati, and Salt Lake City were the three cities chosen as finalists to potentially host the festival in two years. According to the Sundance Institute, the finalists were chosen based on “ethos and equity values, infrastructure, and capabilities to host the festival, in addition to demonstrating ways in which they will continue to foster the diverse Sundance community and inspire the next generation of independent filmmakers.”
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