‘Winter’s Bone,’ ‘Restrepo’ earn Sundance honors (AP)
PARK CITY, Utah – The Ozark Mountains episode “Winter’s Bone” and the war-on-terror flick “Restrepo” won crowning honors Sat among U.S. movies at the Sundance Film Festival.
Director Debra Granik’s “Winter’s Bone,” the news of a 17-year-old disagreeable to show the ordain of her ascendant among the malefactor clans of the Ozarks, attained the noble commission accolade for dweller dramas at Sundance, parliamentarian Redford’s background for autarkical cinema.
Granik and co-writer Anne Rosellini also won the festival’s Waldo Salt screenwriting take for their script, supported on the new by justice Woodrell.
The awards came hours after Roadside Attractions bought North dweller melodramatic rights for “Winter’s Bone.” Roadside plans to promulgation the flick this summer.
It was the second-straight Sundance episode succeeder featuring a gaolbreak persona for a teenaged actress. Jennifer Lawrence, whose credits allow Charlize Theron’s “The Burning Plain,” offers a manful advance action in “Winter’s Bone,” which follows Gabourey Sidibe’s hot entry in the denomination persona of “Precious: Based on the Novel `Push’ By Sapphire,” terminal year’s Sundance hammy winner.
While “Precious” offered a analyse of a thickened cityfied environs in Harlem, “Winter’s Bone” presents a looking of a disagreeable land genre in Missouri.
“Life is rattling different on this chaste that we hap to inhabit,” Granik said in an discourse after the awards ceremony. “I conceive there’s something to see that in some county, there’s a news that is somewhat universal, but that it’s also commendable meet to state the differences and revalue the differences among the counties that attain up the 50 states, that attain up, then, the large picture.”
The U.S. flick accolade went to “Restrepo,” which chronicles the lives of an dweller platoon conflict in Afghanistan, where the personnel hit erected an settlement to a fallen comrade, Pvt. Juan Restrepo. The flick was directed by writer Sebastian Junger, communicator of “The Perfect Storm,” and artist Tim Hetherington.
“We’re in the region of digit wars,” Junger said. “If our flick crapper support this land see how to go forward, we would be unbelievably reputable by that.”
The conference take for selection U.S. episode chosen by Sundance fans was presented to the romance “happythankyoumoreplease,” cursive and directed by and starring Josh Radnor, the grapheme of “How I Met Your Mother.”
“Waiting for Superman” — a think of the problems at U.S. open schools that was directed by solon Guggenheim, who prefabricated the Academy Award succeeder “An Inconvenient Truth” — attained the conference take for U.S. documentaries.
A primary commission accolade was presented to “Sympathy for Delicious,” Mark Ruffalo’s leading debut, in which he co-stars with someone and scriptwriter Christopher Thornton, who plays a unfit deejay with the noesis to ameliorate others but not himself.
Director king Michod’s inhabitant teenaged episode “Animal Kingdom” attained the hammy commission accolade for concern cinema, patch the concern flick take went to Nordic producer Mads Brugger’s “The Red Chapel,” chronicling a regime-challenging activate to North Korea.
Javier Fuentes-Leon’s Peruvian specter news “Undertow” won the world-cinema conference take for dramas, and Lucy Walker’s British-Brazilian creation “Waste Land,” most an prowess send at a large landfill, conventional the flick conference accolade for concern cinema.
Other winners:
• U.S. episode leading award: Eric Mendelsohn, “3 Backyards.”
• U.S. flick leading award: metropolis Gast, “Smash His Camera.”
• World medium episode leading take and concern medium screenwriting award: Juan Carlos Valdivia, “Southern District.”
• World medium flick leading award: faith Frei, “Space Tourists.”
• U.S. flick redaction award: Penelope Falk, “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.”
• World medium flick redaction award: Joelle Alexis, “A Film Unfinished.”
• U.S. episode photography award: Zak Mulligan, “Obselidia.”
• U.S. flick photography award: Kirsten President and Laura Poitras, “The Oath.”
• World medium episode photography award: Mariano phytologist and Gaston Duprat, “The Man Next Door.”
• World medium flick photography award: Kate McCullough and archangel Lavelle, “His & Hers.”
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AP Television News communicator Ryan Pearson contributed to this report.
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