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Sundance Film Festival

Boulder, CO · Arts & Culture

When

January 21–31, 2027

Where

Downtown Boulder · Boulder · CO

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

The country's leading festival for independent film, founded by Robert Redford in 1978 and long based in Park City, Utah. The 2027 edition is its first in a new home, Boulder, Colorado, running January 21 through 31.

The history within reach

• Sundance Film Festivalsame spot

  The country's leading festival for independent film, founded by Robert Redford in 1978 and long based in Park City, Utah.

• Boulder High School graduates the first high school class in Colorado0.2 mi

  The school opened in 1875 as a preparatory feeder for the new university across Boulder Creek, and in 1876 it turned out the first high school graduating class in Colorado, the same year the territory became a state.

• Naropa University and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics0.2 mi

  The Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa founded Naropa in 1974 and put meditation next to seminars, describing the school as Buddhist inspired rather than Buddhist.

• Downtown Boulder Historic District, the commercial town that survived0.4 mi

  The district listed in 1980 covers 48 acres of Pearl Street between 9th and 16th plus stretches of Walnut, Spruce and Pine, the commercial core that most Front Range towns cleared and Boulder did not.

• The Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse arrives in 200 crates0.4 mi

  Boulder and Dushanbe became sister cities in 1987, and the Tajik capital's mayor answered with an entire building.