Robert Redford
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Robert Redford's Sundance Institute took over a small Utah film festival in the 1980s and turned it into the main marketplace for American independent cinema, where Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Reservoir Dogs, Little Miss Sunshine and Whiplash found distributors. The festival's buyers, not Redford, made the deals, but his name made studios fly in. He died in September 2025, and the festival is moving to Boulder, Colorado.
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