The nonprofit Sundance Institute announces dates for the annual movie event, set for Park City and Salt Lake City.
Eugene Hernandez, director of the Sundance Film Festival and the Sundance Institute's public programming changes the marquee at Park City's Egyptian Theatre at the end of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival — teasing the 2025 edition of the independent film festival.The independent film festival will bring Hollywood’s attention to Park City and Salt Lake City from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2, 2025, the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced Tuesday.
Hernandez added that his first festival as director was “filled with so many moving, inspiring stories of discovery with emerging and established artists from around the world connecting with festivalgoers.”last week that the Metropolitan Theaters Corporation, which operates two of Sundance’s Park City venues — the Redstone 8 and Holiday Village Cinemas 4 multiplexes — filed for bankruptcy at the end of February.
Planning for the festival, including its venues, is in its early stages. This year, Sundance used two of its larger Park City venues, the Eccles Center Theatre and the Prospector Theatre, only during the festival’s first half. Two other venues, the MARC and the Temple Theatre, have not been used since 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic prompted Sundance to go entirely virtual in 2021 and 2022.to distributors.