The late star had an annual tradition of rallying Sundance Film Festival talent with “a call to arms,” recalls his daughter
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- Robert Redford’s daughter Amy reflects with PEOPLE on her late father’s legacy in the independent film world
- “Tributes about my dad,” she says of the star who launched the Sundance Film Festival, have been “overwhelming” and “healing”
- Robert produced and starred in the 1969 film Downhill Racer, which Amy says inspired his founding of the Sundance Institute to support indie filmmaking
The late Robert Redford’s legacy lives on — both at the Sundance Film Festival and with his daughter Amy Redford.
“I was maybe not prepared for what kind of an onslaught of generosity was going to be here,” actress-filmmaker Amy, 55, tells PEOPLE while attending a Jan. 24 screening of the documentaryCookie Queensat Salt Lake City’s Rose Wagner Theater. “I’m so overwhelmed.”
The 2026 iteration of the famed film festival — held Jan. 22 to Feb. 1 — is understandably an emotional one for all involved…