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A festival downsizes Red, blue and divided By Jay Hamburger The Park Record A Park City film festival that bills itself as a showcase for family-friendly works and was held for the first time in 2016 plans to return this year, but organizers have shifted the event to a much smaller location after not drawing the anticipated crowds last year. The Park City International Film Festival in 2016 staged the event at the spacious Eccles Center, by a wide margin the largest place in the city for a screening room. The festival in 2017 plans to show films in the Santy Auditorium in the Park City Library. The event is scheduled June 15-17. The difference in capacity between the two venues is dramatic. The Eccles Center seats nearly 1,300 people while the Santy Auditorium holds in the 400s for film screenings, depending on the setup. The Sundance Film Festival uses both of the spaces as screening rooms, listing the Eccles Center as having a capacity of 1,270 and the Santy Auditorium as having a capacity of 486. The capacity numbers likely would differ slightly between Sundance and the Park City International Film Festival based on the individual needs of the festivals. Warren Workman, the operations manager for the Park City International Film Festival, said attendance in 2016 did not approach the numbers organizers anticipated, leading to the change in venues. He said approximately 1,000 people attended last year. In the months prior to the event, the organizers had indicated they hoped for between 50,000 and 60,000 in the inaugural year. A sellout of the Eccles Center for opening night was possible, they said prior to the festival. Crowds of up to 60,000 would have put the Park City International Film Festival ahead of Sundance, which draws in the 40,000s as one of the world’s top marketplaces of independent films. The Eccles Center hosts many of the star-studded world pre- mieres during Sundance. “We’re scaling it down quite a bit,” Workman said, acknowledging organizers did not reach the attendance goals in 2016. “It wasn’t filling the Eccles . . . We didn’t get close to that.” Workman said the Park City International Film Festival wants to match the attendance figures in 2016 this year in a slightly shorter event. The Santy Auditorium has a long history of film screenings. It has been a Sundance venue for years and the Park City Film Series, with its popular calendar of independent movies and documentaries, is based at the Santy Auditorium. He said the Santy Auditorium location will also allow the event to offer free screenings during daytime hours. A price has not been set, though, for nighttime screenings. Tickets were $10 or $20 per screening in 2016 at the Eccles Center, he said. Workman said organizers needed to charge for all the screenings in 2016 to ensure the event broke even financially based on the rental of the Eccles Center. The event plans to screen between 10 and 15 films in 2017. The films will have family-friendly themes. Workman hopes the film festival will offer an outreach program involving the youth programs at the library. The Park City Film Series in June will be amid an annual summertime hiatus and is not partnering with the Park City International Film Festival. The executive director of the not-for-profit organization, Katharine Wang, though, touted the Santy Auditorium as a fine screening room. It offers a surroundsound system by Dolby, a digital-cinema projection system and a screen that was installed during a 2014-2015 renovation of the building. Wang said the Santy Auditorium, called the Library Center Theatre by Sundance, is popular with filmmakers whose works are screened there during the festival. She said it is an “intimate venue” but large enough for a crowd. “It still has the intimacy people are used to,” she said, adding, “You can really feel immersed in the film.” Continued from A-1 Workers face uncertainty of time.” McBroom said accusations that the property housed illegal immigrants or a sweatshop are offensive. She said their tenants were mostly in their 20s and on temporary visas, adding “several hotels were even ringing us asking if we had any space to house their workers.” “There are some people you will never please and it is unfortunate,” McBroom said. “But, I think this has highlighted, now more than ever, the dire need in Park City for this kind of accommodations.” Over the last several months, Summit County and Park City’s elected leaders have expressed their commitments to addressing the affordable/workforce housing shortage in the county. However, the fallout from Worsley and McBroom housing season workers at the former Colby School property has spilled over to on the hotel project Hoffvest LLC is proposing, instead. Opponents of the project claim the housing situation highlights Worsley and McBroom’s ill intent. Earlier this year, a conditional-use permit application was submitted to the county requesting approval for a 39room hotel, three cabin-style rooms, a 5,000-square-foot restaurant, plus yoga and fitness studios. The project has sparked a petition from the residents in Event offers chance to hear from liberals and conservatives By Frances Moody The Park Record It’s easy to notice how contentious the political climate is. Facebook posts linked to recent articles about the Trump Administration are often-filled with hateful rhetoric. News coverage of proposals traveling through the U.S. House of Representatives usually include quotes from liberal or conservative politicians attacking their party’s opponents. Charles Robinson, the rector at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, said recent events have made it difficult for people with varying political viewpoints to engage in meaningful and productive conversations. In an attempt to get people representing both sides of the pendulum to work together, the rector organized an upcoming Project for a Deeper Understanding event aimed toward getting Park City residents to explain why they choose to affiliate with progressive or traditional beliefs. “I wanted to do something that was a constructive effort toward pushing against this polarization, or this growing idea that you’re my enemy if you disagree with me,” Robinson said. “The best way I know how to do that is to get people together to talk to each other.” Conservatives and Liberals: Crossing the Divide Toward Common Ground — hosted by a Project for a Deeper Understanding — will be from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, March 30, at the St. Luke’s Church in Snyderville, located at 4595 N. Silver Springs Road. Robinson said the event will be different from the others planned by members of a Project for a Deeper Understanding. When in the past the issues group delved into sensitive issues such as immigration reform, it encouraged dialogue and debate. Robinson, however, wants the Thursday event to be a listening exercise. A panel with two conservatives and two liberals will take stage to explain themselves, rather than converse. “It’s hard to hate someone if you know their story,” Robinson said. “What we Continued from A-1 Angelique McNaughton/Park Record The dormitory-style rooms at the former Colby School located along the east side of State Road 224, shown above, housed up to 50 seasonal workers over the winter. The Park City Fire District has ordered the tenants to leave by April 2. the three surrounding neighborhoods, who claim the project violates county code regarding commercial projects in the Snyderville Basin. “Would we have done things differently? Yes. We were we naïve to think we didn’t need to do anything about the workers. But are we happy that we provided a solution for workers who needed housing? Yes. Are we happy we looked after them in a good manner? Yes,” Worsley said. “ Worsley acknowledged the challenges the issue could create the next time they go before the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission. She said, “It will be brought up and it will be something for them to grab onto but every time we have gone before them something gets brought up.” “More and more claims have been made about our project and we stand true and we believe our project is just simply bringing this property back to what it was used for,” Worsley said. “We are not asking for anything beyond that scope.” ‘Dogs Ears’ desired vation easement, meanwhile, will outline a process to consider amenities like benches on the perimeter of the protected land. The allowances for temporary structures, temporary programming and special events will be critical points in a preservation easement. The Sundance Film Festival, as an example, traditionally uses a small portion of the field as part of the overall festival setup of the screening room at the Santy Auditorium. “We are extremely pleased that the Council has recognized the Library Field as an integral part of Park City’s future... forever! The Library Field, first as the old high school football field, and always as a community common/recreation area, will live on to enrich this town as it always has...as a field of grass!” Ed Parigian, the leader of Save the Library Field, said in an email message to the group after the recent Continued from A-1 Recycle Utah picks leader want to do is have people come together —Trump supporters and Trump opponents — to spend some time listening to the ideas and stories of the other side.” Cheryl Butler will be one panelist who will answer questions asked by a moderator. “I’ll be talking about what it means to me to be a liberal Democrat and what life experiences led me to that philosophy,” she said. Butler hopes this event, which will also welcome Summit County Republican Party Chair Tal Adair as a panelist, will build bridges between Republicans and Democrats. “We are part of a wonderful community, and country, filled with so many people of different viewpoints and strengths,” she said. “And when we can share those perspectives constructively and work together, we can accomplish so much more than if we work at odds with one another.” Attendees will be invited to talk about their opinions after Butler, Adair, lifelong political activist and proud liberal Mike Andrews and Summit County Republican Party Vice Chair Sue Pollard speak. “We have a bunch of round tables at the church,” Robinson said. “Each table will have three chairs designated for progressives and three chairs for conservatives. Each table will also have a moderator.” Liberals and conservatives seated at the tables will then participate in the same listening exercise practiced by the panelists. “They will answer the moderators questions without any kind of cross talk or arguing,” Robinson said. The rector hopes the March 30 panel will be the first in a series of similar events hosted by the Project for a Deeper Understanding. “If we get through that evening and we all agree that is was a positive experience, then the project hopes to follow up with another event fairly soon,” Robinson said. “It will probably be in late April and will take us to the next level of moving toward dialogue.” Conservatives and Liberals: Crossing the Divide Toward Common Ground — hosted by a Project for a Deeper Understanding — will be from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, March 30, at the St. Luke’s Church in Snyderville, located at 4595 N. Silver Springs Road. Liberals and conservatives will be able to explain their political philosophies without the fear of argument from the opposing side. City Council meeting. The elected officials at the recent meeting heard from supporters of the field and City Hall’s open space panel. Steve Joyce, the Park City Planning Commission representative on the Citizens Open Space Advisory Committee, said the details of a preservation easement need to be finalized. He said flexibility is important. “The true value there is the open field,” Joyce said. The City Council did not hold a lengthy discussion about the details of an eventual preservation easement and will likely address the details at a later meeting. Becca Gerber, a member of the City Council, though, said she wanted a clause that would allow watering. The discussions about permanently protecting the field date to mid-2015 and were spurred by a City Hall-organized design studio focused on the lower Park Avenue corridor. 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