"Winter's Bone", "Restrepo" won the Sundance honors

Park City, Utah - The Ozark Mountains drama "Winter's Bone" and "war on terror documentary" Restrepo "won top honors Saturday between American film at the Sundance film festival. Director Debra Granik's" Winter's Bone "is the story of 17 years old, tries to discover the fate of his father, in criminal clans of the Ozarks to the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for American dramas produced, Robert Redford's showcase for independent cinema. Granik and co-author Anne Rosellini also won the Waldo Salt Festival screenplay Award for his screenplay, based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell. The ceremony came hours after Roadside Attractions bought the rights to North American theaters, "Winter's Bone." road maps, to appear the film this summer. It was the second-offs from the Sundance award-winning drama leading roles in small groups for a young actress. Jennifer Lawrence, whose credits Charlize Theron, The Burning Plain, "offers a performance lead, without fear," Winter's Bone, "which after the first sizzling Gabourey Sidibe in the title role of" Precious : Based on the "Push" by Sapphire, "last year, dramatically Sundance winner. While" Precious "looking at a tough urban scene in Harlem," Winter's Bone "provides an overview of a landscape background of hardwoods in Missouri." The Life is very diverse continent we inhabit to happen, "Granik said in an interview after the awards ceremony." I think it's something to understand that in a community, there is a story that is somewhat universal, but it is also worthy to appreciate the differences and to note the differences between the districts that include 50 states, which are also the larger picture. The documentary prize went to the American "Restrepo", the life of an American train fighting in Afghanistan, where troops have built an outpost for telling a fallen comrade, Pvt. Juan Restrepo. The film was directed by journalist Sebastian Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm", and photographer Tim Hetherington. "We are in the middle of two wars," said Young. "If our film is the country understand how to go forward, we would be very honored, that was selected through. "The price of the public's favorite American fiction by Sun Dance lovers romance given" happythankyoumoreplease, "written and directed by Josh Radnor, star of played" How I Met Your Mother. "" Waiting for Superman "– A study on the problems in American public schools has been directed by Davis Guggenheim, who made the Oscar-winning movie "An Inconvenient Truth", directed - won the audience award for U.S. documentaries. A Special Jury Prize, "was" Sympathy for directorial debut Delicious' by Mark Ruffalo, as where he and his friend and screenwriter Christopher Thornton, who a DJ paralyzed from the power to heal others but not himself playing favorites. Director: David Michod's Australian teen drama "Animal Kingdom" won the Jury Prize for dramatic film world, while the price of the documentary was presented to Danish director Mads Brugger, "La Chapelle-Red", a chronicle of a system also stimulate travel to North Korea. Peruvian Javier Fuentes-Leon's ghost story, "Undertow" has won the honor of world-cinema audience for dramas, and Lucy Walker Brazilian-British production "Wasteland", on an art project at a landfill mass received the audience award for world documentary. The other winners: • Drama USA Directed by award: Erich Mendelsohn, "3 backyards." • U.S. documentary director award: Leon Gast "Smash his camera." Cinemas in the world • Drama Award for directing and World Cinema Award Scenario: Juan Carlos Valdivia, Southern District. • Award for World Cinema Documentary Director: Christian Frei, "Space Tourists". • Documentary Award from the U.S. edition: Penelope Falk, "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. "• Award for World Cinema Documentary Editing: Joelle Alexis' unfinished film." Images • U.S. Drama Award: Zak Mulligan, "Obselidia." • Images of the United States Documentary Award: Kirsten Johnson and Laura Poitras, "The Oath". • World Cinema award: Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn, "The Man Next Door". • Documentary World Cinema Camera Prize: Kate McCullough and Michael Lavelle, "For him and her." ___ On the Net: Sundance Film Festival: http: / / ___ sundance.bside.com/2010 AP Television News reporter Ryan Pearson contributed to this report.