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    “Obvious Child,” “Glena” Win VOICES Film Fest Audience Awards

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    DENVER --

    The 4th Women+Film VOICES Film Festival produced by the Denver Film Society has announced its audience award winners for the 2014 Festival. VOICES ran from March 18 – March 23 at the Sie FilmCenter.   

    The two VOICES Audience Awards were:

    Best Narrative Film
    Obvious Child, directed by Gillian Robespierre (USA)
    Donna Stern is a 27-year-old Brooklyn comedian who’s unapologetically lewd, warmhearted wit is pretty irresistible with audiences. When she gets heartlessly “dumped up with” by her two-timing boyfriend, Donna plunges into some light stalking and heavy moping. Hitting a serious low point, she performs a dreary set of break-up vengeance and Holocaust jokes and drunkenly falls into bed with a nice young professional named Max-not remotely her type. A few weeks later, condoms be damned, she’s pregnant. Now Donna, incapable of telling anything but the naked truth when she’s on stage, will resort to any means to avoid telling Max the score. As her date with Planned Parenthood draws near, she must confront her doubts and fears like never before.

    Best Documentary Film
    Glena, directed by Alan Luebke (USA)
    Glena was living the American Dream: successful career, two happy children, a beautiful family home. Then one day, with no background or training, she decided to give cage fighting a try.  And she was good…really good. But Glena’s world begins to unravel: impending foreclosure, a painful custody dispute, a broken relationship with her teenage son. She puts it all on the line as she travels across the country to compete in a trilogy of epic matches. 




    Timothée Chalamet returns to “SNL” as host — and musical guest

    Friday, January 10, 2025
    Timothee Chalamet arrives at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

    Timothée Chalamet will return to "Saturday Night Live" for his third stint as a host — but this time, he'll be pulling double duty.

    NBC announced Friday that comedian Dave Chappelle will host the sketch show Jan. 18, with musical guest GloRilla, while Chalamet will be the host and musical guest on Jan. 25.

    It's Chappelle's fourth time hosting. The trio of announced performers are all in the thick of awards season. Chappelle and GloRilla, one of The Associated Press' Breakthrough Entertainers of 2024, are each nominated for Grammys at the Feb. 2 show. Chalamet has been nominated for a slew of acting awards for "A Complete Unknown" and is considered a contender for the Oscars, whose nominations will be announced Jan. 19.

    For "A Complete Unknown," Chalamet sang and learned to play the guitar and harmonica to embody Bob Dylan. It's not clear what the actor will sing during the live show (he also sang in "Wonka" and dedicated fans may be hoping for a "Statistics" reprise), but he did previously identify to which Dylan songs he was drawn.

    "I like the more intimate songs like 'Girl From the North Country' or 'Boots of Spanish Leather' or 'One Too Many Mornings' or 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time,'" he told the AP late last year. "But then I also liked 'North Country Blues' and 'Rocks and Gravel' or 'Ballad of Hollis Brown' — things where you hear the iron ore in Bob's voice, the North Country in Minnesota, the Hibbing."

    Dylan himself has appeared on "SNL" — once, as the musical guest, in 1979. Current cast member James Austin Johnson, who portrayed Dylan in a skit earlier this season, briefly appears in "A Complete Unknown."

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