Robert Redford

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Robert Redford

The Sundance Film Festival has set events in honour of Robert Redford and a screening series of past festival hits for its 2026 run, the last before the festival moves from Park City to Boulder, Colorado. 

During the festival, which runs January 22 to February 1, Sundance Institute founder Redford, who died last month, will be remembered with a screening of his 1969 independent film Downhill Racer and events including Celebrating Sundance Institute: A Tribute to Founder Robert Redford. 

The festival’s Park City Legacy programme, taking place January 27-30, will include screenings of new digital restorations of Little Miss Sunshine (with Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, Greg Kinnear and others in attendance), House Party (with Reginald and Warrington Hudlin in attendance), Half Nelson (with Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden in attendance), American Dream, and Mysterious Skin, as well as a recent restoration of Saw. 

The Legacy programme will also include special talks - as part of the festival’s Beyond Film series of filmmaker discussions – with alumni artists yet to be announced. 

Eugene Hernandez, director of the festival and its public programming, commented: “This will be an especially poignant year for us as we reflect on the vision of our late founder, Robert Redford, who redefined cinema and provided a home for generations of artists when he created Sundance Institute. In the coming weeks as we announce the projects premiering at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, we aim to have these compelling new stories in conversation with films from the festival’s first four decades and also share moments that connect our history as a festival with the present and future of independent filmmaking. 

“We’re looking forward to honoring the festival’s time in Park City and Robert Redford’s legacy. His fearless support of artistic integrity and risk-taking is at the core of the work we continue to do, and the 2026 festival will be a celebration of that important mission.”

 

 

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