By Gregg Goldstein

Even as Sundance wound down, glimmers of glamour and random acts of kindness still remained.

As I sat inside a mall housing the recently shuttered New Frontier on Main space Sunday afternoon, a guy walked up to a Mohawked, redheaded teen strumming a Telecaster on a bench near mine. “Hey, do you want a guitar?” said the passerby. “I wish,” the teen replied. “Here you go,” said the stranger, handing over an acoustic guitar and walking away.

“Dude, I just saw Jared Leto, and he gave me his guitar! The guy from ‘30 Seconds To Mars’!” he tells a friend on his cell. Turns out the 22-year-old recipient, Dakota Brock, had been looking for funds to get a new guitar for his local church.

By Jay A. Fernandez

Jeremy Konner and Derek Waters’ “Drunk History: Douglass & Lincoln” has won the jury prize in short filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival. In the film, Will Ferrell and Don Cheadle perform a re-enactment as Jen Kirkman describes a historical event after downing two bottles of wine.

The festival announced its short film winners Tuesday night at the Jupiter Bowl in Park City.

By Mira Advani Honeycutt

Main Street has returned to a sense of normalcy, even though the festival is not over.

That’s because it’s a wrap for the lounge scene. For the first five days of the fest, lounge-mania was in full swing. In fact there was such an abundance of gifting/networking lounges, that Main Street looked more like the Lounge Corridor.

There was the Lia Sophia Lounge at the Lift and the Red Carpet/Green Lounge across the street gifting expensive Lamborghini watches to selected VIPs.

Discretionary gifting was the key word at the Luxury Lounge showcasing socially conscious products. Guests could test drive the green Tesla car or use the lounge’s concierge services such as special access passes to the fest. In between bites of organic mini cupcakes, guests could get a luxurious Clarisonic skin treatment from Dr. Rob Akridge.

By Jay A. Fernandez

My last Sundance screening of the 2010 fest turned out to be the horror-comedy “Tucker & Dale vs. Evil,” Wednesday afternoon at the Library Theatre. And what a way to go out.

Eli Craig and Morgan Jurgenson’s inspired twist on the kids-go-into-the-woods trope is clever and original and very funny. Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine play the title characters, two sweet rubes headed into the woods to spruce up a new “vacation home” (creepy cabin). Soon after, a group of typically dim and entitled college kids stumbles into the area and quickly becomes convinced that Tucker and Dale are bloodthirsty psychos out for one of the girls, played by “30 Rock’s” Katrina Bowden.

By Kirk Honeycutt

Someone sitting near me at the Eccles Theater Monday morning was startled to see me reading a book prior to the 9:15 screening. He laughed. He saw this as a radical act since everyone else in the auditorium had heads buried in BlackBerrys and mobile phones.

I thought of this later that day when I took in the New Frontier entry “Utopia in Four Movements,” which its creators, filmmaker Sam Green and musician Dave Cerf, call a “live documentary.”

By Jay A. Fernandez

An interesting timeline emerged from two Sundance 2010 features — the Banksy quasi-doc “Exit Through the Gift Shop” and Tamra Davis‘ documentary “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child.”

I caught a press and industry screening of “Basquiat” at the Holiday Village Cinema 3 Tuesday night, and it reminded me that the deceased artist first gained renown for his street poetry on the Lower East Side in the late 1970’s. Basquiat, working under the name Samo (for Same Old, Same Old), began spraying his oblique, pseudonymous poetry around Manhattan as a critique of modern art, before becoming a doomed, if fascinating, icon of the movement himself as a painter.

By Jay A. Fernandez

I have to question the wisdom of throwing a party for a Sundance film the night before it premieres, but then I’m not a public relations specialist.

Tuesday night, I swung by the Luxury Lounge on Main Street to check out the Skintimate shindig for Galt Niederhoffer’s “The Romantics.” The film is another ensemble comedy (see “HappyThankYouMorePlease“) about (relatively) young people struggling with life and love — in this case at the seaside wedding of two of the group. I haven’t seen it, mainly because the setup reads like a hundred other films I’ve seen and cringed through. But also because the film wasn’t scheduled to screen until today at 11:30 a.m.

By Jay A. Fernandez

While the major Sundance 2010 titles have been flirting with cutting distribution deals, some lower-profile films have been closing their own. Here’s a quick roundup of some of the off-the-radar dealmaking from the last few days.