When is The Sundance Film Festival, that began in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival, held annually?
Sundance Film Festival Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. The 2018 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 18 to January 28, 2018. Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978, as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterling Van Wagenen (then head of Wildwood, Robert Redford's company), John Earle, and Cirina Hampton Catania (both serving on the Utah Film Commission at the time). The 1978 festival featured films such as "Deliverance", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Midnight Cowboy", "Mean Streets", and "The Sweet Smell of Success". With chairman Robert Redford, and the help
Sundance Film Festival family into the Sundance Film Festival. In Season 7, Episode 22 of "One Tree Hill", Julian Baker takes his film "Seven Dreams Till Tuesday" to the festival. Referenced in Season 3, Episode 12 of "Gilmore Girls" when Paris Geller tells Rory Gilmore to "save her act for Sundance." In Season 1, Episode 5 of "Nirvanna the Band the Show", Matt and Jay fly to Utah after Matt convinces Jay that their amateur film was accepted overnight, where Matt instead hijacks the projection of a completely different film. Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute,