For Park City’s full-time residents, many of whom have grown up with the Sundance Film Festival, the idea of it leaving seems unimaginable.

As Sundance Film Festival organizers consider leaving for Colorado or Ohio, Utah’s governor is making a final financial push to keep the annual event in its longtime home.

Colorado lawmakers offer up to $34 million in tax credits to attract Sundance Film Festival to Boulder, boosting local economy and film industry.

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — With the 2025 Sundance Film Festival underway, Utah leaders, locals and longtime attendees are making a final push — that could include paying millions of dollars — to keep the world-renowned film festival as its directors consider uprooting.

Colorado lawmakers want to put millions of dollars in state tax credits on the table to lure the Sundance Film Festival to Boulder.

The Sundance Film Festival is the largest and among the most prestigious independent film festivals in the U.S., and it could soon be getting a new home. The festival, which is taking place now through Feb.

EXCLUSIVE: No final decision has been made on if the Sundance Film Festival will stay in Utah or move to either Boulder or Cincinnati in 2027, but for attendees of the 2025 gathering a big change on Park City's Main Street has received a full thumbs-up so far.

Bowen Yang, the “Wicked” actor and “Saturday Night Live” comedian, said he's in favor of having the Sundance Film Festival move to Salt Lake City, with some events remaining in Park City, rather than leave Utah entirely.

Park City and Salt Lake City are continuing to guard many of the details of the bid to retain the Sundance Film Festival in the state. But the governor of Utah and the leader of the Park City Chamber/Bureau have recently entered the scene with limited information.

Sundance Film Festival continues, Utah officials are working behind the scenes to keep the event in its 40-year home.

It's an influential time for ski resort employees here in Colorado. It comes after a Park City Mountain Resort patroller strike in Utah earned them higher wages and benefits. That success in another state with the same parent company is now playing into local contract conversations with resorts owned by Vail Resorts.

Alpaca International, a store on Main Street, displays a sticker in support of retaining the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.