Festival Archive

Sundance Film Festival

Salt Lake City, Utah / United States / Founded 1978

Born from a piece of land in the Wasatch Mountains that Robert Redford couldn't stop thinking about, Sundance turned a snowbound Utah ski town into the place where American independent cinema discovers itself every January. It is less a marketplace than a proving ground — the festival that let Tarantino, Soderbergh, and Aronofsky make their case before anyone else would.