The Sundance Film Festival, the most important annual competition for the US independent cinema founded by Robert Redford In 1978, Change location after over 40 years: This week, in fact, the organization has announced that from 2027 the Festival will be held in Boulder (Colorado) instead of Park City (Utah).
For a year now, after noting that the previous headquarters had become too small in terms of infrastructure, hotels and cinemas (in recent times, in recent times, the festival did not fall within the expenses and did not have the restrictive laws towards the LGBT+ community of the Utah), the organization was looking for a new destination (Amy Redford, Robert’s daughtertook part in the trial) and found it in Bouldera city of 100,000 inhabitants compared to the 10,000 Park City (and with a younger and more heterogeneous population; in addition, the Colorado government lavished with tax incentives for 34 million dollars).
This guarantees the survival of a fundamental festival for the independent scene and which over the years has launched the career of directors such as Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson and Christopher Nolan. It may be that in recent years he has not had the relevance he had between the late 1980s and the beginning of the 2000s, but since it is held in January he continues to be essential so that small films (as well as documentaries) find a distribution, acquire notoriety during the year and then have some chance during the premium season (for example, TAIL He had started his race to the Oscar at the best film, as happened more recently for the statuette won by Kieran Culkin For To Real Pain).
All this would not have been possible without the support of Robert Redford and his Sundance Institute (The name is inspired by the famous character of Sundance Kid he played), the organization he founded to promote the work of independent artists and who still presides over. Although not responsible for managing the festival, Redford has released a declaration to evaluate a change that he considers “inevitable”.
“We must always evolve and grow, this has been fundamental for our survival”said Redford. “This decision will guarantee the Festival the opportunity to continue taking risks, supporting innovative artists, promoting independence as well as entertaining and educating the public. I thank the Boulder community for his support and I can’t wait to find out what the future will reserve for the event when he will be held there ».
Robert Redford, who He will turn 89 next AugustIn recent weeks he has made news for reasons other than the change of seat of the Sundance: unexpectedly, in fact, he has returned to acting.
It is true that he did it only for A short cameo of 30 seconds in An episode of the series Dark Windsaired on March 9 in the United States, where You can see it in the company of George RR Martinthe author of the literary saga Chronicles of ice and fire who inspired the series The throne of swordswith whom I play chess in prison (“They are waiting for everyone, make your move,” says Redford to Martin, in a clear reference to the well -known difficulties experienced by the latter in completing the sixth novel of the saga).
Both are producers of Dark Windswhich is why it was not too complicated to have the cameo accepted to Redford, but it is still significant because it is the his first appearance on the screen for six years nowafter the appearance (equally short) in Avengers: endgame in 2019. A year earlier, in 2018, on the occasion of the release of Old Man & The Gunthe actor (then 81 years old) had announced that this would be his latest film before retiring from the scenes.
«I have come to the conclusion that this, for me, will be the end as regards acting, and that I will retire from the scenes after the release of this film, because I haven’t had nothing else since I was 21 years old “had ensured a Entertainment Weekly.
Shortly thereafter, on the occasion of premiere of the film, he had specified that much categorical affirmation: “I think I was wrong to say that I would have withdrawn, because in reality you never know what the future reserves”declared the actor a People. «What I meant is that I had the impression that perhaps the time had come to focus on other jobs within the cinema. I never had to say that I would have withdrawn, because the only thing I got is that nobody is paying attention to this new film ».
Seven years ago, after all, he didn’t make a lot of mistakes. In fact, despite being still active as a manufacturer in projects such as the aforementioned series Dark Winds and the documentary of 2024 All Illusion Must Be Brokenit seems less and less likely that we will review the actor in an important role (apart from the two cameos already mentioned, in these years Redford has limited himself to lending the voice to a dolphin that appears in OMNIBAT: A Fast Boat Fantasyan anthological film from 2020 Directly directed by his nephew Dylan Redford And that obviously it was projected to Sundance).
In reality, Robert Redford distanced himself from Hollywood in every sense: Now, in fact, he lives mainly in his Ranch in Santa Fe (New Mexico) with his wife, the German artist Sibylle Szaggarswhich manages a gallery. At the moment, the life of both is concentrated there, so much so that last year they decided to sell the residence they still owned on the Californian coast, in Tiburon, and that, according to the Wall Street JournalAnd was sold in less than a month for 4.65 million dollars.
In Santa Fe, the spouses are also very busy in the non -profit environmental organization The Way of the Rain (the actor has dedicated much of his life to supporting environmental causes). Redford and Szaggars met in the 90s at Sundance And they got married in 2009. Previously The actor had been married to the historic and activist Lola Van Wagenenwith whom he had four children (the first died at the age of two and a half months, while the third disappeared in 2020 for liver cancer), but has always been very reserved on his private life.
Source: Vanity Fair
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