The Sundance Film Festival began in Salt Lake City in 1978 as the Utah/U.S. Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah. One of the founders was Robert Redford. Redford then became the festival's inaugural chairman, and he is still intimately involved with the event; in fact, it is named after his character in the film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” It has been officially called the Sundance Film Festival since 1991. Held every January in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah, the festival is the premier showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers.

Although Park City, Utah (Sundance’s “main city”) supposedly has fewer Mormons, per capita, than other cities in the state, any money spent there still inevitable goes to fund hate. The host/headquarter theatre for the Sundance Film Festival is the Holiday Village Cinemas in Park City. A company called Cinemark owns Holiday Village Cinemas. The CEO of Cinemark GAVE $10,000 TO THE “YES ON 8” CAMPAIGN.

The host HOTEL for the Sundance Film Festival is the Park City Marriott. The Chairman and CEO of Marriott International is J. W. Marriott, Jr.. He is both AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE MORMON CHURCH, and a member of its “Sixth Quorum of the Seventy” (an esteemed position within the church, seen as a traveling minister and charged with the mission of preaching the LDS gospel to the entire world).