Utah's effort to keep the Sundance Film Festival in the Beehive State has crossed another hurdle — but other cities are also in contentions are offering financial incentives to sweeten their proposals.
Other cities, including Atlanta and Boulder, are sweetening their proposals with financial incentives.
The Sundance Film Festival’s road to finding a home from 2027 onward has cleared another deadline — and Utah’s bid to remain the festival’s host state is still in play. The state’s host committee submitted its bid — answering a request for proposals, or RFP — to the nonprofit Sundance Institute on Thursday, Virginia Pearce, director of the Utah Film Commission, said in a statement Monday evening.
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