Bowen Yang, the “Wicked” actor and “Saturday Night Live” comedian, said he's in favor of having the Sundance Film Festival move to Salt Lake City, with some events remaining in Park City, rather than leave Utah entirely.

Frame By Frame will debut Saturday — the last night of the Sundance Film Festival — from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. in “a small, little unknown alley” at 223 Floral Street, located behind official Sundance Film Festival venue Broadway Centre Cinemas.

Park City and Salt Lake City are continuing to guard many of the details of the bid to retain the Sundance Film Festival in the state. But the governor of Utah and the leader of the Park City Chamber/Bureau have recently entered the scene with limited information.

For Park City’s full-time residents, many of whom have grown up with the Sundance Film Festival, the idea of it leaving seems unimaginable.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox walked the press line for the Sundance Film Festival premiere of “Train Dreams” at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday night. “It’s going to be an amazing festival, 41 years of Sundance here in Utah,” Cox said. “I think this is going to be the best one ever.”

As Sundance Film Festival organizers consider leaving for Colorado or Ohio, Utah’s governor is making a final financial push to keep the annual event in its longtime home.

The Short Film Program awards honored the winning projects five days before the conclusion of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where 88 feature-length and episodic works and 57 short films — curated from 11,153 short film submissions — have screened to audiences in Park City, Salt Lake City and online.

As Sundance considers moving out of Utah, the indie film community weighs how much of its identity is rooted in Park City.

Relief Society General President Camille N. Johnson received the Global Service Leadership award from the Sundance Institute. "We believe that global progress starts with women and children, and so we have prioritized their needs,

"When a mother hears there's no cure for her son's chronic kidney disease, they'll do anything in their power and beyond to change that," said Geiser.

Sundance Film Festival underway, Utah leaders, locals and longtime attendees are making a final push - one that could include paying millions of dollars - to keep the world-renowned film festival as its directors consider uprooting.