Here are five pop culture references that are uniquely Utah.
The Sundance Film Festival kicks into high gear along Main street in Park City on Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, with fans hoping to snap a selfie with a celebrity, autograph seekers, paparazzi, locals and lots of people in black.Anyone new to a community faces the dilemma of figuring out what the local culture is like. In Utah, with its diverse and often divergent subcultures, it can get a little off-putting.
A group of film fans started the Utah/U.S. Film Festival in September 1978 in Salt Lake City, in what was the Trolley Corners movie theater. Most of the program was dedicated to classic movies, but a couple of programmers put together a roster of eight new movies made by so-called “regional filmmakers” outside the Hollywood mainstream.
It was Redford’s friend, the director Sydney Pollack, who advised the festival organizers to move the event to January and to Park City — to give Hollywood types an excuse to take a ski vacation and see some movies. Park City hosted its first festival in 1981, and has been the host city ever since. It was 1989 when the festival cemented its reputation as a place to find the next big thing in movies, when Steven Soderbergh’s “sex, lies and videotape” premiered. Miramax paid $1 million for the distribution rights, a record for the time, and it went on to win the Palme D’Or at Cannes and became a hit.
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