Colorado's Boulder was selected over two other finalist cities, Cincinnati and Salt Lake City. The relocation will steer the festival toward a new era.

After a yearlong search, the Sundance Film Festival announced Thursday that its new home will be Boulder, Colorado, keeping Sundance in the mountains but moving it out of Park City, the Utah ski town that had for decades provided the premier independent film gathering its picturesque snowy backdrop.

The Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film fest in the U.S., is moving to Colorado after four decades in Utah.