John Cooper, on his last run as Sundance Film Festival's director, isn't playing it safe

John Cooper announced this summer that the 2020 Sundance Film Festival would be his last as director. But he isn’t slowing down.

Some people might hold back, and let a successor make big policy decisions. Not Cooper. “I pretty much forced every idea on them,” he said in an interview. His successor, he said, “can reject them later. We’ll see if anything sticks.”

In this interview, Cooper and program director Kim Yutani talk about what’s coming this year, and what it might mean for Sundance’s future. Read it at sltrib.com..