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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival has been charged with sexual abuse of a young girl.
Online court records show 71-year-old Sterling Van Wagenen was charged on April 4 on accusation that he inappropriately touched a girl on two occasions between 2013-2015. A probable cause statement shows the alleged abused occurred in Utah when the girl was between the ages of 7 and 9.
Van Wagenen's attorney Steven Shapiro declined to comment. Van Wagenen has not yet entered a plea.
Van Wagenen's biography page at the University of Utah says he co-founded the Sundance Film Festival with Robert Redford and was the Sundance Institute's founding executive director.
He hasn't been with Sundance for two decades and resigned from the University of Utah in February.
He was a producer on the 1985 film "The Trip to Bountiful."
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