QUICK ANSWER Confirmed: employees at Hotel Boulderado, the hotel Sundance Institute has confirmed as festival headquarters for 2027, notified management of their intent to unionize with UNITE HERE on July 2, 2026, and picketed outside the hotel on September 11 asking Sundance to publicly support their organizing effort. Reported: workers describe layoffs, cut shifts and…
QUICK ANSWER Confirmed by the grant maker: Community Foundation Boulder County, working with the Boulder County Arts Alliance, has opened applications for a new grant program called Boulder B-Sides. It will fund 8 to 10 local artists or arts organizations, up to $15,000 each, to install public art in vacant downtown Boulder storefronts during the…
QUICK ANSWER Confirmed: the 2027 National Western Stock Show runs January 9 to 24 in Denver, according to its official schedule, overlapping with the first four days of Sundance 2027 in Boulder, January 21 to 31. The two events sit in different cities roughly 30 miles apart, but they draw on the same regional airport,…
QUICK ANSWER Reported: real Boulder short-term rental listings tracked by 5280 in mid-September 2026 show nightly rates from about $359 for a one-bedroom near CU Boulder to $2,235 for a downtown two-bedroom during the festival, several times what the same units charge on an ordinary weekend. For comparison, Park City hosts reported earning between $125…
QUICK ANSWER Confirmed: the same 2025 state law that helped bring Sundance to Boulder also created a smaller, competitive tax credit for Colorado’s other film festivals, worth up to $500,000 a year. The 2026 application window opened August 14 and closes September 27, 2026 at 11:59 p.m., according to the Colorado Office of Economic Development…
QUICK ANSWER Reported: a regional lifestyle publisher called The Scout Guide is launching an 11 day marketplace named Scouted Colorado at the Community House at Colorado Chautauqua, directly across from Chautauqua Auditorium, one of the confirmed Sundance 2027 screening venues. It runs January 21 to 31, 2027, the same dates as the festival, and pairs…
QUICK ANSWER Confirmed: CU Boulder has published the specifics that were still pending when we last covered its Sundance 2027 student programs. Two paid internships pay $19.29 an hour, student press credentials have two application windows running from now through December 10, and departments have until October 1 to propose festival-tied coursework. This comes directly…
QUICK ANSWER Reported: filmmaker Amy Redford, daughter of Sundance founder Robert Redford, gave interviews this month about the festival’s move from Park City to Boulder after four decades in Utah. She framed the relocation as a change of address, not a change of mission, saying Sundance’s founding purpose of championing new filmmakers outside the studio…
QUICK ANSWER Confirmed: Boulder’s downtown music festival, previously called the Roots Music Festival, relaunched in August 2026 under the new name Tulagi, and its founder says it is deliberately building infrastructure and audience around the same cultural moment that Sundance’s move is creating in Boulder. This is not a Sundance-affiliated event and it did not…
QUICK ANSWER Confirmed: Sundance Institute has announced that FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics, will establish a jury at the festival for the first time, starting with the 2027 Boulder edition. A three critic panel will evaluate first time filmmakers in the World Cinema Dramatic and World Cinema Documentary categories and present two new…