The Sundance Film Festival begins for the last time in Park City, Utah before heading to Boulder, Colo., next year. It’s a bittersweet finale for the country’s premier independent film festival, founded by Robert Redford in 1978.
With a gala, the festival plans to pay tribute to the late actor and director, who died of natural causes in September.
“Before he passed earlier this year, [Redford] shared with us this quote: ‘Everybody has a story,'” says the festival’s director, Eugene Hernandez. “This notion is such a great framing for a festival that has always been about finding and sharing with audiences the stories that come from all over the world.”…