With just nine months remaining before the first Boulder, Colorado, edition of the Sundance Film Festival, the organizers of the world’s most important showcase for independent cinema — which was held in Park City, Utah, for the last 45 years — are making big moves, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Sundance has hired Paula Dupré Pesmen, an Oscar-nominated producer of narrative film franchises (Home Alone and Harry Potter) and documentaries (The Cove and Porcelain War), and the founder of a multi-state organization that helps sick children and their families (There With Care), as managing director of festival and institute operations. Pesmen, who has lived in Boulder for 30 years — she helped the city put together its pitch for Sundance and then was brought on by the fest as managing director of its relocation — is now the fest’s highest-ranking official based in town.
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