People gather outside the Egyptian Theatre in Park City on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026 before the start of the Sundance Film Festival. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)
Park City’s main street will flood lines of expecting Sundance Festival fans and movie aficionados for the last time. It’s the last Utah winter when a special kind of people watching happens 30 miles away from Salt Lake City, while in theaters, new stars are born and the legacy of the past Little Miss Sunshines and Whiplashes are still revered decades after their notable premieres at the festival.
More than four decades after its birth in the state, the Sundance Film Festival started its Utah swan song last week with a festival dedicated to its history in the Beehive State before officially moving to Boulder, Colorado next year…