Fifteen years ago, the Utah Film Festival held its first event in the back of a small Indian restaurant in Provo. This month, they held their festival in sold-out theaters at the Taylorsville Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center.
Warren Workman, a programmer, publicist, and one of the founders of the Utah Film Festival, recalled the opening year.
“It was only like 20 of us total, the whole attendance. And it was quiet. It was comfy. It was intimate,” Workman said. “And then going to the selling out theaters in the Taylorsville Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center … in the last 15 years, it’s just been huge.”…