Some homes are listed for more than $5,000 a night Sundance Institute board chair Ebs Burnough speaks during a news conference announcing the Sundance Film Festival would move to Boulder at the Boulder Theater on March 27, 2025. (Eli Imadali for CPR News file) When Boulder was selected to host the Sundance Film Festival, one expectation was that accommodations would be less expensive than in Park City, Utah, where festival attendees competed for rooms with ski tourists.