Dan Sundance 2013 pun berakhir. Ya, festival yang diselenggarakan mulai 17 Januri hingga 27 Januari ini menutup rangkaian pemutaran film-film indie terbaru dari Amerika Serikat dan belahan dunia lain. Dalam upacara penutupan yang sekaligus upacara pengumuman pemenang festival, Fruitvale karya sutradara Ryan Coogler membawa pulang hadiah utama Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic. Fruitvale mengalahkan Ain't Them Bodies Saints, salah satu film yang paling dipuji di Sundance 2013 ini. Fruitvale pun membawa pulang penghargaan Dramatic Audience Award, sebuah penghargaan yang diserahkan berdasarkan pilihan penonton. Fruitvale sendiri sudah dibeli hak distribusinya oleh The Weinstein Company, dan diperkirakan akan dirilis menjelang musim penghargaan 2013 nanti.
Sundance Film Festival bisa disebut sebagai sebuah festival film indie terbesar di dunia. Festival ini pertama kali muncul dari ide aktor sekaligus sutradara Robert Redford pada tahun 1981. Sundance bukan hanya sekedar festival film. Tapi juga pasar di mana para filmmaker memasarkan film terbaru mereka, dan para produser dan distributor "berbelanja" film-film indie; karena film-film yang diikutkan pada festival ini kebanyakan merupakan film yang belum memiliki distributor, dan dijadikan ajang pembelian hak edar film dimaksud. Tidak sedikit dari film-film yang tayang di Sundance pada akhirnya menjadi nominator Oscar. "Lulusan" Sundance tahun lalu, Beasts of the Southern Wild merupakan contoh terbaru setelah mendapatkan 4 nominasi Oscar termasuk nominasi Best Picture di ajang Academy Awards ke-85.
Selain Fruitvale dan Ain't Them Bodies Saints, tahun ini beberapa film yang menjadi sorotan adalah The Way, Way Back, Upstream Color, Toy's House, dan Before Midnight. Kita nantikan kiprah film-film tersebut menjelang akhir tahun nanti. Akankah mereka mampu berbicara banyak? Berikut adalah daftar pemenang Sundance Film Festival 2013.
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic
"Fruitvale," directed by Ryan Coogler
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary
"Blood Brother," directed by Steve Hoover
World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic
"Jiseul," directed by Muel O
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary
"A River Changes Course," directed Kalyanee Mam
Dramatic Audience Award
"Fruitvale," directed by Ryan Coogler
Documentary Audience Award
"Blood Brother," directed by Steve Hoover
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award
"Metro Manila," directed by Sean Ellis
World Cinema Documentary Audience Award
"The Square," directed by Jehane Noujaim
The Best of NEXT Audience Award
"This Is Martin Bonner," directed by Chad Hartigan
Directing Award, Dramatic
Jill Solloway, "Afternoon Delight"
Directing Award, Documentary
Zachary Heinzerling, "Cutie and the Boxer"
World Cinema Directing Award, Dramatic
Sebastián Silva, "Crystal Fairy"
World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary
Tinatin Gurchiani, "The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear"
Waldo Scott Screenwriting Award
Lake Bell, "In a World"
World Cinema Screenwriting Award
Barmak Akram, "Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)"
Documentary Editing Award
Matthew Hamachek, "Gideon's Army"
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award
Ben Stark, "The Summit"
Excellence in Cinematography Award, Dramatic
Bradford Young, "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" and "Mother of George"
Excellence in Cinematography Award, Documentary
Richard Rowley, "Dirty Wars"
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Dramatic
Michal Englert, "Lasting"
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Documentary
Marc Silver & Pau Esteve Birba, "Who Is Dayani Cristal?"
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic (Acting)
Miles Teller & Shailene Woodley, "The Spectacular Now"
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic (For Sound Design)
Shane Carruth & Johnny Marshal, "Upstream Color"
Special Jury Prizes: Documentary
"Inequality For All," directed by Jacob Kornbluth
"American Promise" directed by Joe Brewster & Michèle Stephenson
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Documentary
"Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer," directed by Mike Lerner & Maxim Pozdorovkin
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic
"Circus" directed by Srdan Golubovic
Alfred P. Sloan Prize
"Computer Chess," directed by Andrew Bujalski
The Short Film Audience Award
"Catnip: Egress to Oblivion," directed by Jason Willis
The Short Film Grand Jury Prize
"The Whistle," directed by Grzegorz Zariczny
The Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction
"Whiplash," directed by Damien Chazelle
The Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction
"The Date," directed by Jenni Toivoniemi
The Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction
"Skinningrove," directed by Michael Almereyda
The Short Film Jury Award: Animation
"Irish Folk Furniture," directed by Tony Donoghue
A Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting
Joel Naglein in "Palimpsest"
A Short Film Special Jury Award
"Until the Quiet Comes," directed by Kahlil Joseph