Winter’s Bone has taken the Grand Jury Drama Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

According to USA Today, director Debra Granik’s picture was snapped up by Roadside Attractions for national distribution as soon as the awards were announced.

The film is about a 17-year-old in the Ozark Mountains who goes hunting for her fugitive father and runs afoul of menacing drug runners.

Granik and co-writer Anne Rosellini shared the screenplay honour for the movie.

Last year, the Oscar-tipped Precious won Sundance’s Grand Jury Drama Prize.