DENVER (CN) — Six months ahead of the Sundance Film Festival kicking off in Boulder, Colorado, the state’s former septuagenarian film commissioner, who says he secured the event’s relocation, sued his former employer claiming age discrimination and defamation.
After playing a role in negotiating the relocation of the Sundance Film Festival from Park City, Utah to Boulder, Colorado, 79-year-old Donald Zuckerman said his supervisor at the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade fired him and replaced him with a younger employee when he refused to take the fall for three-quarters of a million dollars that were mistakenly given to his department.
“Plaintiff made a good faith disclosure when plaintiff’s office identified and documented an approximately $747,816 miscredit to the Film Office account,” Zuckerman wrote in a 16-page complaint filed in Denver County District Court Wednesday evening…