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Dropbox Sundance
Amplify + Dropbox bring the creative process to life at Sundance.
Challenge
For over a decade, Dropbox has quietly powered some of the most celebrated films in the world, yet most people still think of it as a place to store files. At the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, well over half of feature films ran on Dropbox, with filmmakers from Werner Herzog to Idris Elba trusting it to keep their creative process moving. But outside the edit bay, the brand hasn't gotten credit for the role it plays: creatives know the name, not the full story, and a new product, Dropbox Dash, has barely registered next to near-universal awareness of the core brand.
Our task: reposition Dropbox from cloud storage to creative partner, showing up at Sundance not as a sponsor, but as the infrastructure filmmakers already rely on.
Insight + Strategy
Sundance is where the next wave of culture gets made, but the magic has always happened off-screen, in shared files, late-night edits, and the thousands of conversations that turn a rough cut into something unforgettable. Dropbox has been part of that process for years, yet it's been hiding in plain sight: essential creative infrastructure, mistaken for simple storage.
With Sundance entering a new chapter, we saw a chance to close the gap between what Dropbox is and what filmmakers already know it to be. By putting product in service of natural Sundance behaviors, we could make Dropbox's role in the creative process impossible to ignore.
Solution
At Sundance 2026, we turned 501 Main Street into Dropbox House, where the creative process wasn't explained, it was experienced.
The experience started outside. A diagonal grid of dynamic lighting cast shifting patterns across the building's framework, with mirrored logos and sharp angles catching eyes from down Main Street. Every step toward the entrance felt cinematic, a signal that something unexpected was waiting inside.
26
panel and networking events
100+
replay video booth moments recorded
600
custom branded swag items
On the ground floor, The Studio was built around the real texture of filmmaking, weaving product integrations throughout. The Replay Video Booth let guests record a moment, annotate it live, and share it instantly, turning a product feature into a creative instinct.
At the Dash Stack Bar, Dropbox Dash organized insider Sundance intel in real time while serving specialty cocktails.
Upstairs in The Blue Room, Semantic Search became a suspended photo gallery guests could walk through: a content piece played on screen, triggering four images to light up at a time, showing how Dropbox finds ideas, not filenames, without a single word of explanation.
The space shifted with the day, such as intimate IndieWire Studio interviews and Creator Conversations panels in the afternoon, including fireside chats with actors, directors, writers, offering insights from their own creative processes. Evenings followed with a series of Friends of Film networking and premiere parties.
Dropbox House became a focal point for both informal community building and high-profile interviews with talent and creators.
Over three days, Dropbox House welcomed countless guests, hosted 26 panel and networking events, gave away 600 custom branded swag items, and drove 100+ interactions with the Replay engagement activation. Proof that the tools behind the story deserve a story of their own.