The Sundance Film Festival began in Salt Lake City in 1978 with support from Robert Redford.
This year's festival marked a memorial for him. Robert Redford's vision helped shape Sundance into a home for independent film and new voices.
Filmmakers like American actor and filmmaker Ethan Hawke said Redford’s impact reached far beyond his own work, creating a community built on opportunity and collaboration.
"His ability to bring others along with him and empower others and to cultivate voices and to care about other people and to care about not just his great work but the work and our whole community, (is) what our community is about," Hawke said.
This commitment to empowerment opened doors for countless artists known today.
"He didn't just create many iconic films. He made space for others to do the same," Woody Harrelson, American filmmaker and actor, said.
Redford's influence continues to be felt in every story told and every new voice discovered at Sundance.
"Robert Redford. Bob to me, not to you. Also, imagine something that did not exist and brought it forward into being, and every new voice discovered at Sundance," Taika Waititi, New Zealand filmmaker and actor, said.
Robert Redford’s legacy and impact on the film industry will never be forgotten.