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- The 1978 festival featured films such as Deliverance, A Streetcar Named Desire, Midnight Cowboy, Mean Streets, and Sweet Smell of Success. The goal of the festival was to showcase American-made films, highlight the potential of independent film, and increase visibility for filmmaking in Utah.
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May 3, 2024 · The Sundance Film Festival began in September 1978 in Salt Lake City, Utah, under the name Utah/United States Film Festival. The idea was launched by the Utah Film Commission as a means to promote independent film and to bring the state of Utah to the attention of filmmakers.
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Jan 25, 2024 · The pre-Sundance days. Utah's premier film festival originated as the Utah/United States Film Festival in 1978, a brainchild of the Utah Film Commission. It was, as noted by Britannica,...
Sundance Institute assumed creative and administrative control of the U.S. Film Festival, expanded it to 10 days, and showcased American independent and international films, including: John Schlesinger ’s The Falcon and the Snowman, Robert Rosenberg and Greta Schiller’s Before Stonewall, William Duke ’s The Killing Floor, John Sayle’s Brother from Another Planet, Roland Joffé ’s The ...
Jan 27, 2010 · The festival, then called the U.S. Film Festival, began in Salt Lake City in 1978 as a way for founders Sterling Van Wagenen, John Earle and Cirina Hampton Catania to attract more filmmakers...
The festival 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, a Brigham Young University film school graduate, and John Earle of the Utah Film Commission.
Apr 1, 2020 · It screened at the Utah/U.S. Film Festival, in 1978; upon seeing it, a member of the festival’s board of directors, Robert Redford, decided to found the Sundance Institute.