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.
John Nein, the festival’s senior programmer and director of strategy, still remembers the big snowstorm that fell over Park City in 1996, the first year he attended the festival…