Minnesota film industry hopeful to land Sundance Film Festival [Video]

Minneapolis wants to bring one of the most well-known film festivals in the world to the city. The Sundance Institute announced last week it’s exploring new locations to host its iconic festival starting in 2027.

It currently takes place in Park City, Utah.

For Andrew Peterson, the possibility of the Sundance Film Festival moving to the Twin Cities is filled with potential.

“I’m more than ready to do this here,” he said. “I start focusing on that five or six-block stretch of Hennepin Avenue where we have some of the most gorgeous, jewel box, beautiful theaters that can become synonymous now with Sundance.”

Peterson worked for Sundance as the director of theater operations for three years in the early 2000s.

“I liaised with the City of Park City creating contracts and then building out venues,” Peterson explained. “Plans for celebrities and how they get in and out and every aspect of how a film plays out there.”

He still partners …