Sundance Film Festival has chosen Boulder, Colorado, as its new host city, confirming the festival's departure from Utah's Park City.

Boulder beat out Sundance’s long-time home of Park City, Utah, as well as Cincinnati — the two other finalists — for the right to host the world-renowned festival founded more than four decades ago by Hollywood icon Robert Redford.

The Sundance Film Festival is Boulder bound, leaving its home of four decades in Park City, Utah, for a new chapter in neighboring Colorado. Organizers announced their decision Thursday after a yearlong search in which numerous U.