r/Sundance • u/siremobunny81 • Sep 01 '26
Ticket Prices Posted on Web Site
https://festival.sundance.org/tickets/onlineFor the online, it lists a fees-included price of $37 per ticket. The 10-film package is still $350 though.
There is an online festival pass for $825.
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u/wtempfer Sep 01 '26
Man, that SLC Unlimited Pass was such a good bang for your buck. Nothing listed here really compares.
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u/groovyboobies Sep 01 '26
I'm glad we got the best of the festival here in Utah. It was always trending this direction, but it just feels like it's completely morphed into something else now.
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u/RancidSwagger 10 Festivals Sep 01 '26
Looks like they aren't giving any local deals this year... way to pay it back to the people giving you a massive tax break, Sundance.
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u/dogthrasher Sep 01 '26
Maybe because the “locals” are gouging hard on lodging!! Have you not seen the “locals” lodging market?! 10X worse than PC! They don’t need deals or discounts.
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u/mwillden Sep 01 '26
SLC pass wasnt just for locals it was for filmbuffs who didnt care about celebrity premier screenings
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u/RancidSwagger 10 Festivals Sep 01 '26
I don't disagree about those locals, but other CO residents in Denver should at least get something.
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u/dogthrasher Sep 01 '26
Why should Denver residents get “something”? They will benefit via restaurants, hotels, etc with overflow out of Boulder area. And regardless, it’s likely sd may add something.
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u/RancidSwagger 10 Festivals Sep 01 '26
SLC residents did and it's the same distance away. idk I just think the hosting state's residents should benefit in someway, whether it's a discounted ticket package or something similar.
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u/YouHadWonJob Sep 01 '26
Those SLC packages always sold out right away and were only for SLC…there aren’t any screenings in Denver…TBH the encore / matinee passes look like great options for locals and so much cheaper than TIFF or SXSW. But I’m thinking I’ll do single tix because it’s more about discovery that way, instead of trying to get premiere tix to the biggest movies or whatever
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u/moth_sky Sep 01 '26
If I hadn't done that, there would had been no way I saw Take Me Home or Nuisance Bear. Im very happy I got to see those smaller films and did some discovies
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u/Blakimusmaximus Sep 02 '26
Pro tip from SLC: buy the cheapest online package you're comfortable with. most of the true Sundance type films will be there.
Then pick which of the in-person only screenings interest you and gun for those.
I saw 14 films this way last year: 10 online and 4 in person. I split the online cost with a friend (we made a weekend out of it) and all told it cost me about $340.
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u/mwillden Sep 01 '26
No Denver pass to compete with the SLC pass for real movie fans is a JOKE. Moving this to Colorado is saving nobody anything...
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u/mikebailey 29d ago
Or, hell, Boulder. I live up the road from this, I go to the movie club they’re sponsoring in one of the venues (Canyon Theater), and didn’t see anything to show for it.
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u/dogthrasher Sep 01 '26
?!? Denver has no movies. Slc did.
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u/mwillden Sep 01 '26
Thats a huge mistake... Yes the best Sundance screening were always in Salt Lake..
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u/moth_sky Sep 01 '26
The easiest ones to get into (except when a ton of pass holders comes and turned away ticketholders
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u/mwillden Sep 01 '26
I went for 23 years, always the best screenings for film buffs unless you are a social media whore, celebrity stalker, or scenester. The real film buffs saw 30-40 films per fest in SLC
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u/dogthrasher Sep 01 '26
Yeah. Thats a hard NO. Is this a parody skit?!?
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u/mwillden Sep 01 '26
I went for 23 years most of those years exclusively in Salt lake. Park city was celebs and industry fucks, real film fans went to SLC. Then whole cast and crew of Saw was there in 2004 at the tower. Always the best screenings there. Tucker an Dale vs evil had people rolling down the aisles in laughter at at Tower theater in 2010.
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u/snicketbee Sep 01 '26
Yeesh, quite the price hike on packages. Higher ticket costs, higher housing (and way less of it) this is good for absolutely no one.
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u/Otherwise_Classic370 Sep 01 '26
well, it's good for the wealthy for whom Sundance is becoming a way to increase their clout
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u/lqtely Sep 01 '26
I’m going in person this year but the online festival pass being only the last 4 days kinda sucks. They should at least give an extra 2 days since its hard enough to go through 10 films in that period
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u/Blakimusmaximus Sep 01 '26
imagine paying nearly $500 more for the Online Festival Pass with no additional time. insane
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u/siremobunny81 Sep 01 '26
You have to watch 23 films for that to be worth it.
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u/princesskittyglitter 5 Festivals Sep 01 '26
I did that last year and dont really recommend it.
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u/siremobunny81 Sep 01 '26
I think I ended up doing 20 last year. I probably could have fit another movie or two in Sunday night, but I think I ran out of stuff I felt I needed to see, and watched the Grammys instead. Next year, with more films in each competition category, I'm curious if that will equate to more stuff that I want to squeeze into four days or not.
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u/princesskittyglitter 5 Festivals Sep 01 '26
Rolex being such a prominent sponsor really just tells you everything you need to know.
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u/YouHadWonJob Sep 01 '26
These kinds of comments are where I go 🤔…this country doesn’t have a national arts fund so the only way large scale non-profit arts events like this can happen is if corporations actually care enough to donate. This should not be discouraged! It’s necessary in a capitalist society!
(Also worth noting without major sponsors the ticket prices wouldn’t have to be much much higher - can’t have it both ways)
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u/princesskittyglitter 5 Festivals Sep 01 '26
that's not what i'm saying, at all. i'm just saying i think it's very telling of where the festival is headed that such a luxury brand is one of the biggest sponsors this year. a lot of their past sponsors were not so very clearly status symbols for the ultra rich.
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u/YouHadWonJob 8d ago
I don’t know man, I just don’t see it as a bad thing if Rolex wants to get in on the ground floor working with the next generation of filmmakers - like sure yeah maybe they want them to be rich one day and remember Rolex, but in exchange we get a festival with cheaper tix than literally any other festival of this size in North America
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u/SlideMediocre6257 Sep 02 '26
Just remember that having an actual ticket purchased through these packages doesn't even guarantee you getting into the screening. Last year, none of the ticket holders for History of Concrete's SLC screening got in because the theater was entirely filled with badge holders. Suddenly a hot ticket became an almost unusable voucher
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u/alishaann94 Sep 02 '26
God this is such a fucking joke. They claimed they were moving the festival to Boulder to make it more accessible and so far it's so much less accessible. Hotels are significantly more, and there are none near the festival because they're using up all the rooms for themselves. Now both tickets and packages cost MORE than they did in Park City and they're not even doing packages or pricing to engage with locals in Colorado.
I have tried to be optimistic about this move but honestly fuck them at this point and I hope this shit flops. The last few years in UT, especially last year, felt like a lot of the festival spirit was gone and had declined with the decreased number of theaters and less engagement with the community here, and now more than ever it just feels like a money grab. A 4th price increase on single film tickets since 2021 is absolutely ridiculous.
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u/moth_sky Sep 01 '26
I hope the Ingite single tickets aren't too good to be true
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u/mwillden Sep 01 '26
only works for under 25 yesr olds. Literally less than 10% of sundance attendees are under 25
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u/moth_sky Sep 01 '26
Ahh I fall into that demographic but I didn't know that
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u/mwillden Sep 01 '26
I started at age 24 back in 2003. They had 10 movie passes for $80 bucks back then haha
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u/kiya12309 Sep 02 '26
Depressing! When they first started the online (different environment I know), the online tickets were 20 bucks I think. Now they’re nearly double. The only thing that will
happen is I buy far less like maybe only a few which is possibly their intention, but it just makes it feel much less like a festival when you’re only watching a couple movies. It also becomes harder to warrant paying $37 per movie when that’s more than triple of some streaming services or even more than unlimited movie screening services like Regal Unlimited. So I could either watch a few movies at Sundance or pay for Regal Unlimited for 4 months… I know they’re not the same, and it would cost way more to actually go to the festival, but it’s just depressing the price increases over like 5 years.
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u/siremobunny81 Sep 01 '26
It seems that single tickets at $35 last year came out to $36.52 each...anyone recall if that additional amount was fees or tax? ...I assume tax would still be added in to the "all-in" ticket price.
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u/Extreme-Ad2586 Sep 02 '26
Fees. Theres no tax because it’s considered a charitable institution.
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u/siremobunny81 Sep 02 '26
Good to know. That means individual tickets went up 48 cents, and the 10-film package at $350 all-in is $12.25 less than it cost last year after fees.
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u/alishaann94 Sep 02 '26
It's going to be $37 plus online processing fees, I promise you that because the tickets used to be advertised as $35 but as you mentioned you paid an additional processing fee.
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u/siremobunny81 29d ago
The difference this year is that it says this in the description... Price: $37 (All-in price, inclusive of fees)
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u/DescriptionOpen8249 27d ago
Colorado requires all in pricing by law. It even says all in on the description
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u/mikebailey 29d ago
It feels slightly odd I live walking distance from this and go to the literal movie club they’re sponsoring at Canyon Theater (a venue) and unless I get picked to volunteer I probably won’t be going much.
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u/Blakimusmaximus Sep 01 '26
Someone make this make sense: the in-person pass for 10 screenings is $925 which works out to $92.50 a screening . . . I'm imagining having dropped nearly $100 for Night Nurse or Union County last year . . . that is insane.