PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — 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 directors consider uprooting.

The Short Film Program awards honored the winning projects five days before the conclusion of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where 88 feature-length and episodic works and 57 short films — curated from 11,153 short film submissions — have screened to audiences in Park City, Salt Lake City and online.

S tanding in line outside the Eccles for the opening-night premiere of "Twinless," a group of Park City locals affixed bright yellow stickers reading "KEEP SUNDANCE IN UTAH" to th