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It's time we held Utah accountable for the hate and bigotry it gladly exports to the rest of our union.

Enough is enough. The Mormon Church, and its associated businesses, is free to foment discrimination against gay Americans, but we are also free to stop frequenting the businesses of those who would make gays and lesbians second-class citizens.

Since its founding, America’s film industry has been inexorably intertwined with hard-working gay people who support each and every facet of the business. It's time to stop funding bigots in Utah who would use one hand to take our money, then buy knives and stab us in the back with the other. Let’s start with the annual Sundance Film Festival. It is now time for Sundance to find a better state to party in than the seat of the Mormon Church. The LAST place Sundance should be held is in Utah.

Money spent in Utah is going into the pockets of people who then use that money to take away the civil rights of gays and lesbians. We are quite literally funneling money to anti-gay bigots.

PLEASE - If you are gay or lesbian, or if you support your gay and lesbian friends, family members, co-workers and neighbors, or just the idea of basic civil rights for everyone - INSIST and DEMAND that the 2009 Sundance Film Festival be moved OUT of Utah to a state where a huge number of their citizens did not bankroll tens-of-millions of dollars in a hateful and bigoted effort to strip California citizens of their civil rights and attempt to revoke the marriages of 18,000 California newlyweds.

AN IMPORTANT WORD ABOUT E-MAILS, PHONE CALLS, LETTERS AND FAXES:

Most of these people are our friends, supporters, and members of our community; but regardless if they are or not - if you are abusive, rude, profane, loud or threatening, you are working against us. Please speak with people the way you would like to be spoken to, with respect and dignity, even if you disagree with them. Be strong and firm…but respectful!

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Since we have mailing addresses for EVERYONE on our list, there’s nothing wrong with writing an old-fashion letter. Yes, it will cost you 42¢. It’s also simple, effective, gets read, and it gets people’s attention!

Contact Robert Redford. Tell him after years and years of Utah exporting bigotry and hate, it is now time to move the Sundance Film Festival to a different state:

Robert Redford
Wildwood Enterprises, Inc.
725 Arizona Ave., suite 306
Santa Monica, Ca. 90401
310-451-8050

TELL THE SUNDANCE INSTITUTE THE SAME THING:

Sundance Institute
8530 Wilshire Blvd., 3rd Floor
Beverly Hills, CA 90211-3114
310-360-1981 phone
310-360-1969 fax

Utah Office Sundance Institute
1825 Three Kings Dr.
Park City, UT 84060
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 684429
Park City, UT 84068
Institute@sundance.org
435-658-3456 phone
435-658-3457 fax

State film commissions are organizations that exist in all 50 states with the goal of encouraging and facilitating film production and persuading filmmakers to bring their shoots to their respective state.

Tell the director of the Utah Film Commission that after three decades of his state benefiting from the hard work of gays and lesbians in the film industry, (the Sundance Film Festival was created in 1978 as the Utah/U.S. Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah), he now needs to issue a simple press release, in which he:

  • 1) Clearly states that: “The Utah Film Commission publicly condemns the passage of California’s Proposition 8.”
  • 2) Clearly states that: “The Utah Film Commission fully supports same-sex marriage.”

Marshall Moore
Director Utah Film Commission
Council Hall / Capitol Hill
300 North State Street
Salt Lake City, Utah 84114
801-538-8740 phone
800-453-8824 toll free
801-538-1397 fax
mdmoore@utah.gov

Contact these openly-gay, extremely successful and influential people in the film community and ask them to PUBLICLY SUPPORT MOVING THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL OUT OF UTAH. (And once again, PLEASE be respectful when contacting them!)

David Geffen
Dreamworks SKG
100 Universal City Plaza, building 5121
Universal City, Ca. 91608
818-733-7000

Scott Rudin
Scott Rudin Productions
120 West 45th street, 10th floor
New York, N.Y., 10036
212-704-4600

Alan Ball
Creator/Executive Producer
True Blood
1040 N. Las Palmas Avenue Building 2S, 2nd floor
Los Angeles, Ca. 90038
323-860-8388 phone
323-860-8389 fax

Dan Jinks
Bruce Cohen
The Jinks/Cohen Company
4000 Warner Blvd. Building 138, Room 1106
Burbank, Ca. 91522
818-954-1072

Roland Emmerich
Centropolis Entertainment
1445 N. Stanley Ave., 3rd floor
Los Angeles, Ca. 90046
323-850-1212 phone
323-850-1201 fax

Craig Zadan
Neil Meron
Storyline Entertainment
8335 Sunset Blvd., suite 207
West Hollywood, Ca. 90069
info@storyline-entertainment.com
323-337-9045 Craig
323-337-9046 Neil
323-210-7263 fax

Adam Shankman
Offspring Entertainment
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, Ca. 91521 818-
560-5645 phone
818-560-5642 fax

Bryan Lourd
Co-Chairman
Creative Artists Agency
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, Ca. 90067 424-288-2000