Utah leaders, locals and longtime attendees of the Sundance Film Festival are making their final push to keep the world-renowned independent film festival in the state as its directors consider uprooting it.

This month, the Sundance Film Festival is once again providing a showcase for independent filmmakers and documentarians from around the world. But that isn't all that Sundance does. "Sunday Morning" goes behind the scenes.

Alpaca International, a store on Main Street, displays a sticker in support of retaining the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday in Park City, Utah. Many in the movie business continue to deal with the devastating fallout from the Los Angeles-area wildfires, but some are decamping to the mountains for fresh air,

While the future home for Sundance, the iconic indie film festival actor Robert Redford helped create, remains up for debate, there’s no argument about the 2025 lineup in Utah. It’s dynamite, and includes a smattering of films with Bay Area ties.

Festivalgoers look at a poster at top left featuring Sundance Film Institute co-founder Robert Redford and his "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" co-star Paul Newman during the opening day

The Sundance Film Festival, held nearby in Park City for more than 40 years, is credited with catapulting the careers of once-unknown talent, including Quentin Tarantino, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Nolan, and is now full of recognizable faces presenting big new projects while clomping in the snow and networking on Main Street.

The Sundance Film Festival is a venue for discovering and spotlighting talented unknown voices, and it finds a unique one with Sorry, Baby, an amusing and sneakily affecting dramedy from comedian Eva Victor.

While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027 , the 2025 program is under way. The event’s 41st edition kicked off January 23 in Utah, and you can look below for all of Deadline’s reviews from the fest so far.

As we wrap up the closing weekend of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival — the 41st hosted here in Park City — I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who helped make this year’s event a success.

Park City and Salt Lake City are continuing to guard many of the details of the bid to retain the Sundance Film Festival in the state. But the governor of Utah and the leader of the Park City Chamber/Bureau have recently entered the scene with limited information.

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