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.

Sundance Film Festival carried on this year despite wildfires that greatly affected the entertainment industry.

The city on everybody’s lips at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was…Cincinnati. Countless festival guests whispered about the festival’s potential move to the Ohio city, one of three finalists in its search for a new home. The resounding consensus? “Please, not there.”

The Sundance Film Festival failed to heat up, with few deals even for titles like Jennifer Lopez's "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and the acclaimed "Twinless."

Access to the Sundance Film Festival doesn’t require a trip to Park City, Utah anymore; Just an internet connection.

Sundance Institute this week revealed all the trophy winners to emerge from the fest's short film program during a ceremony and party presented by Vimeo at venue The Park in Park City, Utah.

So far, the Sundance Film Festival has seen a wide variety of celebrity fashion, from gowns to fur-covered clogs.

Frame By Frame will debut Saturday — the last night of the Sundance Film Festival — from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. in “a small, little unknown alley” at 223 Floral Street, located behind official Sundance Film Festival venue Broadway Centre Cinemas.

Nothing lasts, everything fades, and all is ultimately forgotten, and yet if Train Dreams roots itself in that melancholic viewpoint, it also fights against such inevitability by remembering a life overlooked.

When Sundance leaves in 2027, attendees are weighing the pros and cons of the three finalists, Salt Lake City, Boulder, and Cincinnati.

Franco was recently in A24’s “Love Lies Bleeding” with Kristen Stewart, which premiered at Sundance in 2024. He also appears in “Bubble & Squeak,” an off-beat comedy that appeared in the 2025 edition of Sundance, co-starring alongside Sarah Goldberg and Matt Berry.