Following the 41st Sundance Film Festival, Utah Gov. Cox, Park City Mayor Nann Worel and other leaders sign message to The Sundance Institute

Utah leaders, locals and longtime attendees of the Sundance Film Festival are making their final push to keep the world-renowned independent film festival in the state as its directors consider uprooting it.

No one quite knew what to expect from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which came to the mountains of Utah just two weeks after wildfires swept through Los Angeles. Some festival staff had lost their homes,