The Sundance Film Festival is Boulder bound, leaving its home of four decades in Park City, Utah, for a new chapter in neighboring Colorado.Organizers announced their decision Thursday after a yearlong search in which numerous U.

After over 40 years in Park City, Utah, the Sundance Film Festival has a new locale. Starting in 2027, the popular independent film-centric festival will move to another snow capped mountain town in Boulder, Colorado, according to a news release from the Sundance Institute.

Sundance Film Festival's decision not to move to Cincinnati disappointed but didn't defeat local leaders who tried to bring the festival here. The city can land big events, said Mayor Aftab Pureval in a press conference he called Thursday in front of the city's acclaimed 147-year-old Music Hall.