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Last year, organizers of the Sundance Film Festival announced it was leaving Park City and maybe Utah for good.

After years of struggling with limited theaters, soaring lodging costs and overwhelming crowds,

they said the festival had simply outgrown the town, so they launched a search for a new home.

Utah was still in the running, but it had to make a pitch like everyone else.

And this is kind of like an Olympics bid. You offer incentives, you promise funding and facilities.

And last Thursday, the festival's board voted. In 27, they're moving to Boulder, Colorado,

the creative tech-savvy college town that also happens to be 10 times the size of Park City.

And people around here couldn't believe it. Sundance was leaving Utah.

The Sundance kid was Robert Redford's character and Utah was Robert Redford's home.

People figured that connection alone would clinch the deal. If not Utah's long history with the festival. It's a history of the Salt Lake Tribune's Sean Means laid out for us.

The festival started as the Utah U.S. Film Festival in September 1978 in Salt Lake City, did a couple years here,

and then in their third year, the suggestion was made by Sidney Pollock, the filmmaker,

the guy that directed Redford in the way we were in three days of the Condor. He said,

you know what you ought to do? You ought to move it into Park City in January.

You'd be the only film festival in a ski town during ski season. Hollywood would just beat down the door to go.

And then four years later, Sundance took over operations of the United States Film Festival.

And one of the first movies that played in 1985 was the Cohen Brothers' first movie, Bloods Simple.

I love you too.

No.

You're just saying that because you're scared.

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