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"The guy who put Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand together was also the matchmaker for Park City and the Sundance Film Festival. “You know what you ought to do?” he asked Redford. “You ought to move the festival to Park City and set it in the wintertime. You’d be the only film festival in the world set in a ski resort during ski season, and Hollywood would beat down the door to attend.” The next January, in 1981, the Utah/US Film Festival relaunched in Park City. Later that year, Redford founded the nonprofit Sundance Institute at his ski resort in Provo Canyon, naming it for his star-making role in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and aiming to foster independent filmmaking."" Sundance Mountain Resort Full article below:

Sundance and Park City: Timeline of a four-decade relationship

Sundance and Park City: Timeline of a four-decade relationship

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An amazing and unique place, absolutely.

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