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She documents the hard
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times, as she continues to
find her voice creating art
that is raw and honest.
The Ministry of Time
by Kaliane Bradley is a
story of time travel and
She is assigned to Com-
mander Graham Gore, who
was slated for death on a
doomed Arctic expedition
in 1847. The two spend
countless hours living
together as Gore is taught
how to exist and partici-
pate in modern day life,
but his adventurous nature
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The Interpretation of
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Should Sundance stay in Utah? State leaders and
locals rally to keep the independent film festival
By HANNAH
SCHOENBAUM
Associated Press
Cincinnati approved a
resolution allocating $2.5
million to Sundance if
festival leaders relocate
to southwest Ohio. Yet
money may not be the ulti- daughters, I don’t want it
mate draw. to end,” Taubin said. “We
Sundance leaders say the watch provocative movies
festival has outgrown the
ski town it helped put on
the map decades ago, and
they worry it has devel-
oped an air of exclusivity
that takes the focus away
buff, but my other girl-
friends are, and being able
to share all that we’ve
been through as women,
as mothers, as wives, as
Attendees
of the 2025
Sundance
Film Fes-
PARK CITY, Utah —
With the 2025 Sundance
Film Festival underway,
Utah leaders, locals and
longtime attendees are
making a final push —
that could include paying
millions of dollars — to
keep the world-renowned
film festival as its direc-
tors consider uprooting.
tival hold
up “Keep
Sundance in
Utah” stick-
ers on Main
Street in Park
City, Utah on
Jan. 24. (AP
photo)
that make us talk and think
about things that maybe
we’ve never thought about
before. Utah would be at
a huge loss without those
conversations.”
Thousands of festivalgo- from the films. An ideal
If Sundance stays in
ers affixed bright yellow
stickers to their winter
coats that read “Keep
Sundance in Utah” in a
last-ditch effort to con-
vince festival leadership
and state officials to keep
it in Park City, its home of Sundance would lose its
41 years.
Gov. Spencer Cox said
previously that Utah
would not throw as much
money at the festival as
other states hoping to lure
it away. Now his office
is urging the Legislature
to carve out $3 million
for Sundance in the state
budget, weeks before the
independent film festival
home would make Sun-
dance more centralized,
affordable and accessible
Utah, the festival’s former
director John Cooper
said major adjustments
to all who appreciate inde- are needed to improve
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pendent film.
Some festivalgoers and
industry leaders worry
transportation between
Salt Lake City and Park
City and make lodging for
filmmakers more afford-
able.
Cooper, who led the fes-
tival from 2009 to 2020,
said he would be sad to
see Sundance shift away
from actor and filmmaker
Robert Redford’s origi-
nal vision. Its very name
comes from Redford’s
character in the 1969 film
“Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid.”
“I felt like my role was
to be a keeper of the flame
for Robert Redford and
his legacy,” Cooper told
The Associated Press.
“The mountains of Utah,
this was his vision. It’s
weird to say ‘Sundance in
Ohio.’ But I think it could
go anywhere. What it does
identity outside its idyllic
mountain hometown.
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Roger and Carin Ehren-
berg, major donors to the
festival, said they would
stop attending regularly
if the festival was out-
side Utah. Sundance is
a “magical experience”
for the New York City
philanthropists, they said,
due in large part to the
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09:30 AM
is expected to pick a home atmosphere in Park City.
for the next decade.
It could retain a small
presence in picturesque
Park City and center itself
in nearby Salt Lake City,
“If it goes to Cincinna-
ti, maybe once in a blue
moon we would go, but
it wouldn’t be a regular
thing,” Carin Ehrenberg
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or move to another finalist said. “For us, it’ll lose its
— Cincinnati, Ohio, or
Boulder, Colorado — be-
ginning in 2027.
“Sundance is Utah, and
Utah is Sundance. You
can’t really separate those
two,” Cox said. “This
is your home, and we
desperately hope it will be da Taubin to relocate her
your home forever.” family from Atlanta to
Festival Director Eugene Heber City — Park City’s
Hernandez told reporters
last week that they had not no ties to the film industry tion is part of its DNA.
made a final decision. An
announcement is expected
this year by early spring.
appeal.”
The couple said they
would likely continue to
donate even if they did not for a community is so
attend.
Nineteen years of fond
memories at Sundance
helped inspire Dr. Rhon-
e Department of State will hold a public hearing to receive public
comments on proposed changes to:
strong.”
The Gifts Under the Lobby Act rule set.
On the red carpet this
week, many were split on
whether Sundance should
stay or go.
Actor Elijah Wood urged
the festival to remain in
e proposed rules are intended to codify two interpretive statements
issued on August 8, 2024, addressing gifting under the Lobbyists,
Lobbying Agents, and Lobbying Activities Act, 1978 PA 472, MCL 4.411
to 4.431. These rules will provide additional explanation about the Act’s
regulation of gifts from lobbyists and their agents to public officials in
order to provide clarity to lobbyists, lobbyist agents, and public officials.
neighboring town. She has Park City, saying the loca-
but has become a fervent
advocate for keeping the
festival in her new home
Others were open to it
relocating. Actor Tessa
Thompson, who serves on
the Sundance Institute’s
board of trustees, said the
festival could maintain its
identity in a new city.
Colorado is trying to fur- state.
By authority conferred on the Secretary of State by section 16 of the
Lobbyists, Lobbying Agents, and Lobbying Activities Act, 1978 PA 472,
MCL 4.426.
ther sweeten its offer. The
state is considering leg-
islation giving up to $34
million in tax incentives to in Utah” stickers — and
film festivals like Sun- another that read “NOhio
dance through 2036 — on for Sundance” — to show
top of the $1.5 million in the festival how much it
funds already approved to means to the local com-
lure the Utah festival to its munity.
neighboring state. “I really am not a movie
This year, she and her
friends distributed thou-
sands of “Keep Sundance
“I think that Sundance
has more to do with the
spirit and community, and
I think that’s evergreen,”
Thompson said. “Regard-
less of where Sundance is,
Sundance will always be.”
e proposed rules will take effect immediately after filing with the
Secretary of State. The proposed rules are published on the State of
issue of the Michigan Register. Copies of these proposed rules may also
be obtained by mail or electronic mail at the following email address:
The Disqualification from Ballot Based Upon Contents of
Affidavit of Identity rule set.
e purpose of these rules is to clarify required procedures regarding
challenges to the contents of a candidate’s affidavit of identity
By authority conferred on the Secretary of State by section 31 of the
Michigan Election Law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.31.
e proposed rules will take effect immediately after filing with the
Secretary of State. e proposed rules are published on the State of
issue of the Michigan Register. Copies of these proposed rules may also
be obtained by mail or electronic mail at the following email address:
Comments on these proposed rules may be made at the hearing, by
mail, or by electronic mail at the following addresses until 3/18/2025 at
05:00PM.
Bureau of Elections
P.O. Box 20126, Lansing, Michigan, 48901-0726
e public hearing will be conducted in compliance with the 1990
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location, the building will be accessible with handicap parking available.
Anyone needing assistance to take part in the hearing due to disability may
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