Editing Sundance Resort (section)

====Sundance Institute and Film Festival====
In November 1979, Redford held a 3-day conference for filmmakers and professional artists at the Sundance Mountain Resort. The goal of the event was to promote indie filmmakers. These efforts laid the foundation for what would become the [[Sundance Institute]].<ref name="Down and Dirty Pictures" />{{rp|8–13}} In 1981, the Sundance Institute was founded to foster and celebrate the diversity of [[American filmmaking]].<ref name="About us">{{cite web|title=Our Story|url=http://www.sundance.org/about/us|website=About Us|publisher=Sundance Institute|access-date=23 August 2016}}</ref>

[[File:Taika Waititi (24694773629).jpg|thumb|left|[[Taika Waititi]] at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016]]

The U.S. Film Festival, first held in 1978, was organized by the Sundance Institute from 1985 onward.<ref name="Sundancing">{{cite book|last1=Anderson|first1=John|title=Sundancing: Hanging Out And Listening In At America's Most Important Film Festival|date=January 2000|publisher=Harper Paperbacks|isbn=9780380804801|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/sundancinghangin00ande}}</ref>{{rp|3}} In 1991, the name was officially changed to the Sundance Film Festival.<ref name="Sundance.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.sundance.org/festival-history/ |title=Festival History |website=sundance.org |access-date=2025-01-24}}</ref> Redford hosted the 1985 festival, the first under the auspices of Sundance.<ref name="seasons of sundance">{{cite news|last1=Cantrell|first1=John|title=The Seasons of Sundance|url=http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?sid=62847555-999e-4113-8338-cf753844c31b%40sessionmgr4008&vid=0&hid=4202&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=9107327&db=f6h|access-date=23 August 2016|work=Town & Country|date=Nov 2002}}</ref> He was reluctant to take control of the festival, and in its early years, it was "regarded by many [film] distributors as toxic".<ref name="Down and Dirty Pictures" />{{rp|29}} However, the 1989 festival gained wider recognition after its showing of [[Steven Soderbergh]]'s ''[[Sex, Lies, and Videotape]]''. Although it has increased in popularity, the film festival has maintained its support of the making and distribution of indie films.<ref name="Sundancing" />{{rp|3–5}}

Today, the [[Sundance Film Festival]] is held each year in January and primarily {{convert|30|mi|-1}} north in [[Park City, Utah|Park City]], and is a popular and well-known competition for [[indie film|independent film]] makers. It is the largest independent film festival in the [[United States]], and also one of the largest in the world. It features documentaries, large films and small films. The festival receives over 9,000 submissions, and around 200 are featured. More than 50,000 people attend the festival each year.<ref name="indie wire">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiewire.com/festival/sundance_film_festival |title=Sundance Film Festival |website=Indiewire.com |date=2013-01-27 |access-date=2016-01-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405063448/http://www.indiewire.com/festival/sundance_film_festival|archive-date=5 April 2016}}</ref>

The small town that surrounds the resort is home to 28 full-time residents, with many residents living in the area more than 50 years.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} Several notable people have owned residencies in the Sundance Resort properties, including [[Sydney Pollack]], [[William Devane]], and [[Daniel Melnick]].<ref name="The Herald alps of UT" />