Mark your calendars: 2025 Sundance Film Festival dates announced
PARK CITY, UTAH (ABC4) — Film enthusiasts, mark your calendars. The Sundance Institute just announced the next Sundance Film Festival will be Jan. 23 through Feb. 2, 2025, celebrating independent film in the mountains of Park City.
Even though the next festival is 10 months away, preparations are already beginning.
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“We’re already laying the foundation for the 2025 edition, looking ahead to sharing a new group of artists’ work with audiences at the start of next year,” said Eugene Hernandez, director of Sundance Film Festival and Public Programming, in a news release.
Hernandez first started as director in 2024, as the Sundance Film Festival celebrated its 40th anniversary. He said that his first festival in that role “was filled with so many moving, inspiring stories of discovery with emerging and established artists from around the world connecting with festivalgoers.”
The Sundance Film Festival is an artist program of the nonprofit Sundance Institute, which uses proceeds from ticket sales to develop emerging artists on a year-round basis through focused labs, direct grants, fellowships, residencies, and more.
Since its start, the festival has introduced many notable titles, including “Past Lives”, “20 Days in Mariupol”, “Hereditary”, “Get Out”, “The Big Sick”, and “Napoleon Dynamite”.
Not only is the festival known for featuring independent projects and unique storytelling, but it also brings booming business to the state. A report from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival shows that over 86,000 individuals attended the festival in person. More than 21,000 of those visitors were from out of state, spending an estimated $97 million in Utah during the duration of the festival. It also contributed $63 million in Utah wages and $12.8 million in state and local tax revenue that year.
More details on the 2025 festival will be released in the upcoming months and a call for submissions will come out later this spring.
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