​Earth Lounge is the place for filmmakers, brands, and creative professionals who know that environmentally informed storytelling of all kinds can help build the future we want.

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​Presenting Partners: Come Clean, Climate Spring, Universal Film, Sustainable Entertainment Alliance, NRDC Rewrite the Future, The Redford Center, and Jackson Wild.

​Action Partners: Grow the Flow Utah, Great Salt Lake Hopeline

​Program Partner: Dropout

​Produced by: Hollywood Climate Summit

​Hosted at: The Impact Lounge

​Program Overview

​3:30PM: Doors Open

​Evening beverages available.

​4:15PM: Keynote

​Great Salt Lake: The National Stakes & The Story That Will Define Us All

​A fireside chat with documentarian & Park City local Fletcher Keyes, Producer of the Sundance 2026 premiere, THE LAKE. Featuring Alysia Reiner (Actress, Activist, Maker).

​The Great Salt Lake is drying. It's poised to hit a historic low next year, threatening public health, economic stability, and an irreplaceable ecosystem. It's one of the most urgent environmental stories in America— and it's being told on screen at this year's festival.

​In this opening conversation, we'll hear what's at stake, what's being done, and how storytellers can help.

​4:45PM: Plot Holes, Busted! Game Show

​Presented in partnership with Come Clean & Sustainable Entertainment Alliance

​In collaboration with Dropout, comedian hosts Lily Du and Grant O'Brien will take us through an interactive trivia game show that debunks environmental storytelling tropes.

​Come play - there are audience prizes!

​5:30PM: Earth Lounge Mixer & Party

​Presented in partnership with Climate Spring and NRDC Rewrite the Future

​Evening beverages and plant-based bites

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​2026 Impact Focus: Save Our Great Salt Lake

​Sundance is leaving Utah after a 40+ year stay, so we're turning our attention to a crisis in the festival's backyard. Through an immersive storytelling installation, we'll activate our community in support of the Great Salt Lake—a vital ecosystem facing an urgent threat.

​Local conservation partners will be on-site with ways to take action!