Director Sebastian Junger accepts the grand jury prize for documentary film for "Restrepo" at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony on Saturday in Park City, Utah. AP It was a big year for gunfire and gangsters at the Sundance Film Festival. "Winter's Bone," a naturalistic thriller about a teenager searching the backwoods Ozarks for her missing meth-cooking father, scored both the grand jury prize in the U.S. dramatic category and the top screenwriting award. (Among the 15 contenders it beat out was "Howl," from Minneapolis indie studio Werc Werk Works, a docudrama about Allen Ginsberg's landmark obscenity trial starring James Franco and Jon Hamm.) "Restrepo," recounting a year in the life of the 173rd Airborne Brigade under fire in Afghanistan's dangerous, strategically crucial Korengal valley, earned the U.S. documentary grand jury prize. (Its 15 competitors included "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work," co-directed and co-produced by Edina native Annie Sundberg.) The gangland-themed Australian coming of age drama "Animal Kingdom" took the grand jury dramatic prize. The audience award for U.S. documentary went to "Waiting for Superman," an examination of the nation's educational system from director Davis Guggenheim ("An Inconvenient Truth.") On a lighter note, the youth comedy "happythankyoumoreplease" directed by "How I Met Your Mother" star Josh Radnor, captured the audience prize in the U.S. dramatic category.
