Coming right before an emotional Sundance Film Festival that paid tribute to its departed leader, Robert Redford, and its move to a new host city, Utah quietly took a big leap into AI filmmaking. A $2 million grant for a new company, Nuovo Film Festival, was approved during a Jan. 8 meeting of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development in Utah, per a recording of the meeting reviewed by Variety . The board’s approval recommendation is now in a standard detail-gathering phase before the grant