The Sundance Film Festival released a video tour of its Boulder, Colo. venues on Wednesday. They include a venue larger than any in its Utah fests.

The historic Boulder Theater will host Sundance Film Festival screenings in 2027 in Boulder, Colo. Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute UPI The Mackey will be the largest venue in Sundance history at the 2027 festival in Boulder, Colo. Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute UPI The Sundance Film Festival is remodeling the interior of the Mackey in Boulder, Colo. for the 2027 fest. Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute UPI The Chautauqua Auditorium hopes to become year-round after the Sundance Film Festival in 2027 in Boulder, Colo. Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute UPI The Old Main theater on University of Colorado Boulder campus will be one of the Sundance Film Festival venues in 2027. Photo courtesy Sundance Institute UPI Carlos López Estrada (R), seen with "Didi" director Sean Wang at the March Academy Awards in Los Angeles, toured Boulder, Colo., venues in a new Sundance Film Festival video. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI UPI

July 29 (UPI) -- The Sundance Film Festival released a video of its Boulder, Colo., venues on Wednesday. The Sundance Film Festival takes place Jan. 21 - 31.

In the video, filmmaker Carlos López Estrada takes festival director Eugene Hernandez on a tour of Boulder. The Mackey Theater is still under construction to become the festival's largest ever venue.

Technical Director Holden Payne explains the screen will be the largest in Sundance history, and they will install 240 speakers. In Park City, Utah, the Eccles Theater was the largest house with approximately 1200 seats.

Roe Green Theater and Old Main are near the Mackey on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. Colorado Chautauqua Association CEO Shelly Benford explains hopes to make the seasonal Chautauqua Auditorium year-round.

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The Boulder Theater is already a historic theater.

"I always get emotional walking into an old movie theater, in the balcony on these red velvet seats," Hernandez says. "You imagine all the different stories that have been told in a place like this over 90 years."

On University Hill, The Sink owner Tell Jones tells Hernandez and Estrada of the year Sundance founder Robert Redford spent in Boulder playing baseball and working as night janitor of The Sink.

Estrada, whose Blindspotting, Summertime and Didi, which he produced, premiered at Sundance, shared excitement for the festival's first year in Boulder.

"There's this very earnest energy of possibility," Estrada said. "That to me as a filmmaker is really exciting."

The Sundance Film Festival announced its move from Utah to Colorado in 2025. They announced the new venues in February following the conclusion of its final Utah fest in January.