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 premiere independent film gathering its picturesque snowy backdrop.

After more than four decades of calling Park City home, the Sundance Film Festival is officially moving to Boulder, Colorado, beginning in 2027. The decision is a major shift for the world-renowned festival,

The Sundance Institute chose the new location for the movie festival because it had outgrown Park City, Utah, its home for the past 40 years.