Overview L.A. Times HQ at Sundance is the Los Angeles Times' portrait and video studio at the Sundance Film Festival, and in 2026, the festival's last year in Park City, Channing Tatum, Ethan Hawke, Kate McKinnon, Edward Norton and Billie Jean King were among the people who sat for it. The 2026 studio ran as the Times Studio at Sundance presented by Chase Sapphire Reserve. Sundance began in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival, and in 2025 it signed a ten-year deal to move to Boulder, Colorado, starting with the 2027 edition. The Times was founded in 1881 and has won more than 50 Pulitzer Prizes. On site The studio is a closed set. Talent and filmmakers come through between premieres and press days for portraits and on-camera interviews with the Times, and the work runs in the paper's Sundance live coverage, photo galleries and video interviews. Casts often come in together: in 2026 the team behind Gail Daughtry and The Celebrity Sex Pass, Zoey Deutch, John Slattery, Ken Marino and David Wain among them, sat as one group. Talent and Influencers Rob Lowe, Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Danielle Brooks, Keegan-Michael Key and David Duchovny also sat for portraits in 2026. Across its festival studios over the years, the Times lists visitors including Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Bryan Cranston, Anne Hathaway, Viggo Mortensen, Elisabeth Moss and Justin Timberlake. Brand presence A presenting partner's name goes on the studio itself, as Chase Sapphire Reserve's did in 2026. The Times pitches the HQ as a place where talent meets a sponsor's brand in person, in an informal, gifting-suite setting, with branding and on-site integration inside the room. Earlier HQ sponsors included the Starwood Preferred Guest card from American Express, Stila, Hormel and Columbia Sportswear, and sponsors can take one festival studio or the whole series, which also runs at TIFF, the Newport Beach Film Festival and Cannes.