For Park City’s full-time residents, many of whom have grown up with the Sundance Film Festival, the idea of it leaving seems unimaginable.

Sundance takes place every January, turning the "ski town of 8,200 full-time residents into a snowy circus, with over 20,000 people streaming in from around the globe," said the Times. When this happens,

Park City and Salt Lake City are continuing to guard many of the details of the bid to retain the Sundance Film Festival in the state. But the governor of Utah and the leader of the Park City Chamber/Bureau have recently entered the scene with limited information.