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Sotheby Each 1-4 Cover_ PARK CITY , UTAH | WWW.PARKRECORD.COM Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 21-24, 2017 Serving Summit County since 1880 Vol. 136 | No. 101 50¢ Main St. Sundance applauds stories Marchers see many reasons inn could to demonstrate be sold They list gender equality and gay rights on eve of gathering By FRANCES MOODY The Park Record TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD The Slamdance Film Festival has been held at the Treasure Mountain Inn on Main Street since 1997. The Park City couple that largely controls the lodging property is considering selling the assets. A deal has not been finalized. Slamdance would like to remain at the location. Slamdance would like to remain at the site TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Sundance Institute Executive Director Keri Putnam, President and founder Robert Redford and Sundance Film Festival Director John Cooper talk to reporters during a press conference at the Egyptian Theatre on Thursday, the opening day of the festival. Robert Redford stays out of politics as festival opens the day before inauguration By JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The Park City couple that largely controls the Treasure Mountain Inn on Main Street is considering selling the assets, a move that would alter the ownership picture along the shopping, dining and entertainment strip as well as bring change to the longtime home of the Slamdance Film Festival. Andy Beerman and his wife, Thea Leonard, own approximately 30 percent of the overall property between their residential and commercial holdings. They also own the propertymanagement firm that operates the Treasure Mountain Inn. They pieced together their holdings over the years starting in the 1990s. Beerman, who is a member of the Park City Council, said in an interview it is unclear what sort of deal could be finalized. He said, perhaps, the couple could sell the management company but keep some or all of the residential and commercial units. Beerman said there are current negotiations with several undisclosed parties about a sale. He declined to discuss the details or a potential timeline. A sale of the property-management firm and the units themselves would be a significant transaction along Main Street. The Treasure Mountain Inn, located toward the southern end of the street, is among the largest buildings on Main Street and one of the prominent lodging properties there. The Treasure Mountain Inn, meanwhile, By SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record One of the questions asked during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival opening-day press conference, which was held a day before Inauguration Day, fittingly addressed the festival’s role within President Donald Trump’s incoming administration. When asked how the creative community of filmmakers could continue to spread hope and tolerance to minorities and others who may be neglected in the upcoming four years, Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford decided to clarify the Festival’s overall goal. “We stay away from politics and stay focused on the stories that are told by artists,” Redford said during the Thursday afternoon conference at the Business .............................. A-15 Classifieds ........................... C-17 Columns .............................. A-22 Crossword ........................... C-4 Editorial............................... A-23 Events Calendar .................. C-6 Legals .................................. C-19 Letters to the Editor ............ A-23 Movies................................. C-4 Restaurant Guide................. A-21 Scene .................................. C-1 Scoreboard ......................... B-5 Sports .................................. B-1 Weather ............................... B-2 Please see Stories, A-2 Please see Marchers, A-8 Doctors offer a dose of hope in Sundance film Community-based health care explored in ‘Bending the Arc’ By NAN CHALAT NOAKER The Park Record Please see Inn, A-2 3 sections • 54 pages Egyptian Theatre that included Sundance Institute Executive Director Keri Putnam and Sundance Film Festival Director John Cooper. “If politics come up in the stories these filmmakers are telling, so be it, but we are here to support the stories that are being told.” Sometimes the role of the Sundance Film Festival gets confusing, Redford said. “The idea of us being involved in politics is not so,” he said. “We feel it is far more important for the storytellers to tell the stories. We do not take a position.” Cooper said the festival will continue to do what it has done since the mid-1980s. “What independent film does is show more of the human side of who we are and what we are,” he said. “It’s where you go to get these stories about other people, the issues from another angle. “We’re going to stand behind our artists because this is what they do,” Cooper said. “Maybe they will need more support, and we are going to be there for that.” As for looking ahead, Putnam said the Sundance Film Festival is a time to celebrate the festival’s founding values, including freedom of expression from all sides of the issues, especially when it Cara Murphy will march for women’s rights. Brian Feltovich is going to support his teenage daughters. Maria Jose Cordova plans to carry her rainbow-colored “Love Liberates” sign to encourage equality for all. Summit County residents have many reasons for participating in the Women’s March on Main. And while everyone who talked to The Park Record is concerned about President Donald Trump’s administration and the values of those in it, they all agreed they will walk down Park City’s Main Street on Saturday morning to stand for their ideals, instead of railing against a Trump presidency. In her interview with radio station KPCW on Wednesday morning, Cindy Levine, the event’s organizer, reiterated a similar point. She said the march projected to see participation by thousands is about positivity and civil liberties. “It’s a freedom of speech march,” Levine told KPCW’s Leslie Thatcher. “What we ask and what we want from this is to be aligned with our mission statement, which is extremely thoughtful. It’s respecting civil liberties, human rights, [and] women’s rights that deeply impact us all.” In November when Trump became president-elect, Tania Knauer knew it was time to rally Park City residents to fight against his threats to defund, among other things, reproductive health care. A board member of Planned Parenthood’s Utah Chapter, Knauer will walk with about 40 people representing the nonprofit that offers reproductive health care and family planning services. She is excited to march in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands who will walk in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. Knauer said she sees Saturday’s march as an opportunity to get the ball rolling for people who plan to get involved with governmental decisions by communicating with legislators. “November obviously set the wheels in motion for a lot of things to change in this country, particularly Planned Parenthood,” Knauer said. In addition to being at the march, Knauer will be at ”I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. But from what I see, I am sure it bends toward justice.” --- Theodore Parker, 1853 In 1983, by chance, two college-age kids met in Haiti -- a serendipitous encounter that helped change the world. Even then, Ophelia Dahl and Paul Farmer shared an extraordinary optimism and commitment to helping the poor. They were soon joined by another young idealist, Jim Yong Kim, one of Farmer’s classmates at Harvard College. As volunteers, they worked in illequipped clinics that were understaffed and overwhelmed with patients, but they refused to give up hope. In Dahl’s words, “It didn’t have to be this way.” She saw the villagers as victims of a global bias against the poor, perpetuated by political and economic forces. Their unstinting efforts to correct those inequities are the subject of the Sundance Documentary Premiere “Bending the Arc,” directed by Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos and produced by Cori Stern. The story first came to Stern’s attention while she was working as a medical-relief volunteer in Nigeria. Like Dahl, she was stunned by the lack of resources available to the poor. “People were dying everywhere. In those days there was only really horrible treatment for the poor and I thought somebody’s got to do something,” she said. Then Stern stumbled onto an article in a medical journal about Farmer, Dahl and Kim’s success while working in Haiti using a community-based, COURTESY OF SUNDANCE INSTITUTE Paul Farmer, a pioneer in community-based health care, tends to a patient in Haiti in the Sundance documentary “Bending the Arc” by Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos. health-care model. She related to them as kindred spirits and wanted to learn more. VISITOR GUIDE Slam down some movies at the top of Main Street Stern wasn’t the only one inspired by Farmer and his friends. The PulitPlease see A dose, A-8 The 2017 Slamdance Film Festival will run through Thursday, Jan. 26, at Treasure Mountain Inn, 255 Main St. The festival will feature film screenings and panel discussions. For information and tickets, visit www. slamdance.com. |