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Jenni Pulos will soon be a mother of two!

The Flipping Out star took to Instagram on Wednesday to reveal she's expecting her second child, a baby girl, with husband Dr. Jonathan Nassos.

Watch: Lauren Conrad Shares First Baby Bump Pic, and It's Just as Cute as We Expected!

Pulos, 44, announced the exciting news with a sweet pic of herself posing on a couch with her 3-year-old daughter, Alianna. In the snap, Pulos wore a white T-shirt emblazoned with the words "Lil sis" over her burgeoning belly, while her mini-me wore a matching "Big sis" top and blush pink tutu.

"Miracles are everywhere!" Pulos captioned the photo, which also featured pink balloons in the background. "Thanking God and everyone whose kindness and support helped more than you will ever know ❤ #LoveHelpers."

"Finding out that I was pregnant again was one of the happiest moments of my life," Pulos told Et. "We are thankful...

Lee Daniels' Richard Pryor biopic keeps trucking along, and now, it seems that they might add Tracy Morgan to the cast as fellow comedian Redd Foxx. The Wrap reports Morgan is in talks to play the Sanford and Son star who would play a mentor to a younger Pryor. Morgan would join an A-list cast: Taraji P. Henson and Eddie Murphy are set to play Pryor's parents, Oprah Winfrey his grandmother, and Kate Hudson as his widow. Pryor would be played by Mike Epps, who got the blessing from Pryor himself before died. Morgan is already filling up his schedule after a horrific accident put him in a coma, hosting SNL and gearing up for a comedy tour starting early next year. Keep on keepin' on!

Academy invitee Eddie Redmayne in 'The Theory of Everything.' Academy invites 322 new members: 'More diverse and inclusive list of filmmakers and artists than ever before' The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has offered membership to 322 individuals "who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures." According to the Academy's press release, "those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy's membership in 2015." In case all 322 potential new members say an enthusiastic Yes, that means an injection of new blood representing about 5 percent of the Academy's current membership. In the words of Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs (as quoted in the press release), in 2015 "our branches have recognized a more diverse and inclusive list of filmmakers and artists than ever before, and we look forward to adding their creativity, ideas and experience to our organization." In recent years, the Academy membership has...

Jazz musician Alan Hicks has directed just one feature documentary, Keep On Keepin' On, but he.s just won a $50,000 prize.

Hicks has been awarded the David and Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship, intended to reward creative ambition, intellectual rigour and innovation in documentary cinema.

.Alan, whose debut film attracted international critical and commercial attention, is on the threshold of what promises to be a bold and exciting career,. said Bob Connolly, speaking on behalf of the selection committee.

Keep On Keepin' On is based on the life of jazz legend Clark Terry (Quincy Jones's first teacher) and his relationship with 23-year-old blind pianist prodigy, Justin Kauflin whom Terry first taught at William Patterson University and with whom he continued to work despite his failing health.

The doc premiered to rave reviews at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2014, where it won the Audience Award and the Best New Documentary Director Award.

The 2014 RopeofSilicon Movie Awards It's hard to believe I've been doing my own brand of "awards" for seven years now. Perhaps because film awards seem to have grown increasingly irrelevant, but when you watch as many movies as I do per year it is nice to sit back and remember the finer moments of the past year, especially when we're stuck in the doldrums of the early year releases, dealing with the likes of Jupiter Ascending, Taken 3, Blackhat and Seventh Son. So, as we are now only a few weeks away from the 87th Annual Academy Awards, it's time to hand out the 2014 RopeofSilicon Movie Awards, looking back on a year that turned out to be much better than it initially appeared it may be. A hard question I'm trying to answer is just what kind of year in movies was 2014c Like previous years, blockbusters came and went.

Tomorrow morning, January 15, the 2015 Oscar nominations will be announced and I'll be here to offer up the complete list and offer up my thoughts on the winners, losers, snubs and surprises, but before that time comes let's take one final look at each category and offer up our predictions. At the beginning of the year I had Angelina Jolie's Unbroken at the top of my Best Picture list and today that film doesn't even make my final list of predicted nominees. In fact, only two of my early year predictions -- Boyhood and The Grand Budapest Hotel -- made my final list, perhaps, in that case, it's best suited they sit at #1 and #2. It's been an odd year given the fact the major contender for Best Picture is a small, $2.4 million budgeted feature from IFC Films. A project pieced together over the course of twelve years is looking to...

Laura Poitras' "Citizenfour" won big at the 8th annual Cinema Eye Honors! The fantastic Edward Snowden doc took home four awards including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature and Outstanding Direction.

Here's the complete list of winners of the 8th annual Cinema Eye Honors:

Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking

Citizenfour

Directed by Laura Poitras

Produced by Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky

Outstanding Achievement in Direction

Laura Poitras

Citizenfour

Outstanding Achievement in Editing

Mathilde Bonnefoy

Citizenfour

Outstanding Achievement in Production

Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky

Citizenfour

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography (tie)

Erik Wilson

20,000 Days on Earth

Franklin Dow and Orlando von Einsiedel

Virunga

Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Films Made for Television

The Price of Gold

Directed by Nanette Burstein

Produced by Libby Geist

For Espn/30 for 30: John Dahl, Connor Schell, Bill Simmons

Audience Choice Prize

Keep On Keepin' On

Directed by Alan Hicks

Outstanding Achievement in a...

Laura Poitras' acclaimed Edward Snowden documentary "Citizenfour" swept the 8th annual Cinema Eye Honors tonight at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, picking up four awards including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature and Outstanding Direction. This marks the second time in Cinema Eye history that a film won four awards. The first film to do so was Ari Folman's "Waltz With Bashir." Poitras also made Cinema Eye history as the first person to win the Outstanding Direction award twice. She previously won for "The Oath" in 2011. The Nick Cave documentary "20,000 Days on Earth" followed with two wins for Outstanding Cinematography and Musical Score. Alan Hicks' "Keep On Keepin' On" won the Audience Choice Prize, and the Nonfiction Short Film award went to Lucy Walker's "The Lions Mouth Open." Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green hosted this year's event, with an audio assist from "Serial" podcast host Sarah.

The THR roundtable brings together Brit Nick Broomfield ("Tales of the Grim Sleeper"), Laura Poitras ("Citizenfour"), Alan Hicks ("Keep On Keepin' On"), Ryan White ("The Case Against 8"), Rory Kennedy ("Last Days in Vietnam"), Orlando von Eisiendel ("Virunga") and Steve James ("Life Itself"). Each filmmaker takes time to tell his or her story, from the perils of financing to the pressure they put upon themselves to deliver socially important work. The smoothly-phrased Laura Poitras and eccentric Brit director--who in his film deliberately plays the fish-out-of-water card while chasing a murder story in South Central Los Angeles--come off especially strong, with zesty remarks about one another's films. Poitras: "I just want to say in terms of Nick's film, I can't believe it's not on the front page of every newspaper in this country, what's happening. That that many women could be killed and that the police...

Documentaries are not my favorite type of film. Most feel like they have enough material for 30-45 minutes of running time, and they just repeat their point over and over again. Some are very skillfully crafted. This Hollywood Reporter roundtable brings together a group of directors or some of the most respected documentaries of 2014. The group includes Steve James (Life Itself), Laura Poitras (Citizenfour), Ryan White (The Case Against 8), Nick Bloomfield (Tales of the Grim Sleeper), Alan Hicks (Keep On Keepin' On), Rory Kennedy (Last Days in Vietnam), and Orlando Von Einsiedel (Virunga). Of the bunch, I have only seen Citizenfour, which I regret. I don't regret seeing it, just that it is the only one. I want to catch up on the rest as soon as I possibly can. Even if documentaries are not my favorite, I still need to see them. I was particularly bad about seeing them this past year.

The Georgia Film Critics Association has more or less kept to the standard flow today with a list of nominations led by critical darlings "Birdman," "Boyhood," "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Selma." Each film picked up seven nods, though "Selma" also figured into collective nods for two breakthrough nominees so you'd be on solid turf to say it was out in front. Check out the full list of nominees below. Winners will be announced on Jan. 9. Check out the rest of the madness at The Circuit. Best Picture "Birdman" "Boyhood" "Gone Girl" "The Grand Budapest Hotel" "Ida" "A Most Violent Year" "Nightcrawler" "Selma" "Snowpiercer" "Whiplash" Best Director Richard Linklater, "Boyhood" David Fincher, "Gone Girl" Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" Ava DuVernay, "Selma" Damien Chazelle, "Whiplash" Best Actor Ralph Fiennes, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" Jake Gyllenhaal, "Nightcrawler" Michael Keaton, "Birdman" David Oyelowo, "Selma" Eddie Redmayne, "The Theory of Everything" Best Actress Marion Cotillard,...

Black Film Critics Circle co-president Mike Sargent accompanied the release of his group's list of 2014 movie superlatives this year with a quote expressing praise for "an incredibly diverse and progressive year for black film." He then went on to broadly touch on the subject matter covered across that spectrum. Nevertheless, his organization's list of winners hardly reflects that diversity, I must say. "Selma" cleaned up, winning six awards including Best Picture. Not represented were films like "Beyond the Lights," "Top Five," "Dear White People," "Get On Up" or "Jimi: All Is By My Side." Just pointing it out. Check out the full list of winners below. And catch the rest of the season at The Circuit. Best Picture "Selma" Best Director Ava Duvernay, "Selma" Best Actor David Oyelowo, "Selma" Best Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash" Best Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw, "Belle" Best Supporting Actress Carmen Ejogo, "Selma" Best Adapted Screenplay "Gone Girl...

I'm curious what the consensus will be in ten to twenty years, once we look back and evaluate the movies of 2014. It seems I continually see people referring to it as either a great year or a terrible year with little in-between. Were you to judge the year on the quality of the mainstream studio features I could see where you might be disappointed. It wasn't exactly the best year for blockbuster cinema. Hell, Christopher Nolan even came out with a new big budget film and it didn't even make it onto my list of Honorable Mentions. However, you look at the mini majors and smaller distributros, studios such as A24, Fox Searchlight, Sony Classics and Open Road and things begin to perk up, but these studios don't market their films on every channel so at the end of the year when people are asking me "what movies they should...

Birdman is clearly a favorite this awards season, at least when it comes to nominations as it once again tops a list of nominees, this time the 2015 Critics Choice Awards as it leads the field with 13 total nominations followed by The Grand Budapest Hotel, which continues to surge this awards season with 11 nominations, and Boyhood with eight. Full disclosure, I'm part of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (Bfca), which nominates and votes on these awards, but I'm a little nervous my nominees this year weren't counted as I mistakenly missed the deadline by a few hours thinking it was on Saturday, not Friday. Oops, though looking at these nominations it doesn't seem as if it would have mattered. For example, I don't see Locke anywhere, Carrie Coon (Gone Girl) didn't get a supporting actress nomination, A Most Wanted Man didn't get an adapted screenplay nomination, no nomination for The Raid 2 in Best Action Movie,...

Director Broomfield ("Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer") exploits his charmingly klutzy persona as the fish-out-of-water Brit to get close to the African American community in South Central La where he investigates a serial killer who ran amuck for two decades before his arrest in 2010. But en route to the truth, Broomfield pokes holes in the case, and the prosecution, revealing a sordid history of municipal neglect and police discrimination happening in Los Angeles. Read More: "Tales of the Grim Sleeper Provokes with Irritating Honesty" Sure to push buttons, this bracing film premiered at Tiff and opens in La December 11 and NYC December 18 via HBO Films ahead of its April premiere on HBO. Alongside more widely regarded contenders "Citizenfour," "The Overnighters," "Keep on Keepin' On" and more, "Tales of the Grim Sleeper" is on the Academy's shortlist of 15 films vying for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. It's...

Can you believe itc It's our final free episode of 2014 as the end of the year and holiday season quickly approach. Today we quickly discuss some of the screeners we've been watching as of late, most notably the documentary Keep On Keepin' On, discuss the Los Angeles Critics Awards as well as the current state of the Oscar race, as well as answer your questions, play some games, take a look at the new DVDs and Blu-rays out this week and a lot of just random conversation to kick off today's episode. We hope you enjoy and hope you'll subscribe to join us for the final few episodes of the year over the coming weeks. If you are on Twitter, we have a Twitter account dedicated to the podcast at @bnlpod. Give us a follow won'tchac I want to remind you that you can call in and leave us your comments,...

Glenn here with the Nbr results as they come to hand. They used to be the first awards of the season to announce their winners, but now the National Board of Review are trumped annually by the Gotham Awards and the Nyfcc in the merry-go-round that is award season. I maintain that unless you're a guild, your absence is more or less moot. However, it can definitely help get your name and face out there to be acknowledged early and often. The Nbr is where the likes of Moulin Rouge! and Amy Ryan made it known that they would be forces to be reckoned with. What did this 105-year-old group select this year? Let's find out...

National Board Of Review Winners

Best Film: A Most Violent Year Best Director: Clint Eastwood, American Sniper Best Actor: (tie!) Oscar Isaac, A Most Violent Year and Michael Keaton, Birdman Best Actress: Julianne Moore,...

Yesterday it was Boyhood winning with the New York Film Critics and Birdman winning at the Gotham Awards. Today it's J.C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year taking Best Film honors from the National Board of Review, which also named Oscar Isaac Best Actor in a tie with Birdman's Michael Keaton and Jessica Chastain took Best Supporting Actress honors for her part in A Most Violent Year while Clint Eastwood (whatc) took Best Director honors... Ummmm, okayc The Nbr handed Best Actress to Julianne Moore (Still Alice) and Edward Norton (Birdman) claimed Best Supporting Actor while The Lego Movie and Inherent Vice took the screenplay awards. Perhaps one of the most interesting awards, beyond Best Director for Eastwood, is the absence of Citizenfour, which didn't win Best Documentary, that went to Life Itself, and it wasn't even named one of the five runners-up, though early year favorite Keep On Keepin' On was named.

The Academy’s Documentary Branch chose the shortlist in a preliminary round of voting. The members will now select the five nominees from among the 15 titles. They had to sift through 134 films, a daunting task, but were individually designated lists of 20% of each stack they received to watch, and then could see the others as they chose. This way, in theory, all the films were screened. Among the more competitive frontrunners in this race are Laura Poitras' Edward Snowden doc "Citizenfour," which is already cleaning up with wins at the Gotham Awards and New York Film Critics Circle this week, along with two films about the art and mystery of photography, "Finding Vivian Maier" and "The Salt of the Earth," Steve James' Roger Ebert doc "Life Itself," Clark Terry mentorship portrait "Keep on Keepin' On," HBO South Central expose "Tales of the Grim Sleeper," Netflix doc "Virunga" and Rory Kennedy's.

The Academy has announced the 15-wide documentary shortlist and apart from one title, it's is a very high-profile group of names. At least they are if you follow the world of documentary. I had discussed with a friend recently that last year's field may go down as the greatest in the category's history, but depending on how the branch votes this year they may just surpass it. I have already seen nine of the 15 and can vouch for almost all of them. Let's take a look.

Art and Craft The Case Against 8 (review) Citizen Koch Citizenfour (podcast | Glenn's review) Finding Vivian Maier The Internet's Own Boy Jodorowsky's Dune Keep On Keepin' On The Kill Team Last Days in Vietnam (review)

Life Itself The Overnighters The Salt of the Earth Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nyff review | AFI review) Virunga

There are some big names in here. Apart from the...

The Academy has announced the 15 documentaries that will advance in the voting process for the 2015 Oscars, competing in the Best Documentary category and among them is the presumed frontrunner Citizenfour, which was named Best Documentary by both the New York Film Critics and Gotham Awards just yesterday. In fact, it's one of the few docs on the list I've actually seen so far along with the Roger Ebert doc Life Itself and Tales of the Grim Sleeper, though several of the others I actually have here on screener and will do my absolute best to get to most of them before the nominations are announced so I can predict this category. Though, at the moment, I fully expect at least Citizenfour and Life Itself to get a nomination and I've heard really good things about Keep On Keepin' On. The Academy's Documentary Branch determined the shortlist in a preliminary round of voting.

The National Board of Review has announced its 2014 honorees, and its selection for the best film of the year could shake up the Oscars race.

"A Most Violent Year" took home the top prize, winning the Best Film award, as well as picking up prizes for its lead actor, Oscar Isaac, and supporting actress, Jessica Chastain. Other notable honorees include Clint Eastwood, who won Best Director ("American Sniper"); Michael Keaton ("Birdman"), who tied with Isaac for the Best Actor award; Julianne Moore ("Still Alice"), who claimed Best Actress; and Edward Norton ("Birdman"), who snagged the Best Supporting Actor prize.

In an interview with Variety, National Board of Review president Annie Schulhof explained why the organization decided to hail "A Most Violent Year," a film that so far has earned critical raves, but hasn't made much noise in awards season prognostications.

"We're quirky and we have a different take," Schulhof told Variety.

Following the Ida Awards nominations last month, the year’s top documentary contenders come into crisper focus with Thursday’s announcement of Cinema Eye’s 8th Annual Nonfiction Film Awards nominations. Laura Poitras’ "Citizenfour" leads the pack with six nominations, including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature. The inside look at Edward Snowden’s Nsa leak also earned praise in Directing, Editing, Production, Cinematography, and the Audience Choice category. Poitras is no stranger to Cinema Eye’s awards — she won the 2011 Directing Award for "The Oath." Familiar faces rounded out the Oustanding Feature category, including Steve James’ Roger Ebert portrait "Life Itself," Jesse Moss’ tale of a North Dakota oil boom town, "The Overnighters," Iain Forsythe & Jane Pollard’s "20,000 Days on Earth," a look musician Nick Cave, and Orlando von Einsiedel’s environment-minded "Virunga." Thirty-six feature films and six shorts will vie for this year’s Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking. Other...

Whoopsy. I forgot to share this list... Herewith the films that could be up for Best Documentary Feature this year. We'll get a finalist of 15 at some point next month followed by 5 nominees in January "until we crown A Winnah!" If we've reviewed the titles, you'll notice their pretty color which you can then click on to read about them. The magic of the internet. You can also see the animated and documentary Oscar charts here.

The 134 Semi-Finalists

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Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq, Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case, Algorithms, Alive Inside, All You Need Is Love, Altina, America: Imagine the World without Her, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, Anita, Antarctica: A Year on Ice, Art and Craft, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, The Barefoot Artist, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Before You Know It, Bitter Honey, Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity, Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi,...

One hundred thirty-four features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 87th Academy Awards®. Several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category's other qualifying rules in order to advance in the voting process. A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December. Films submitted in the Documentary Feature category also may qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided they meet the requirements for those categories. The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. Pt in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar...

Wednesday morning, the International Documentary Association announced its nominees and select winners for the 2014 Ida Awards, an annual tribute to the best-of-the-best of non-fiction film and television. Pertinent to award season are the Best Feature contenders, including Lara Poitras’ recent hit “Citizenfour” “Point and Shoot,” an American filmmaker’s look inside Libyan prisons, “Finding Vivian Maier,” a portrait of the posthumously legendary photographer, Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado's artist profile “The Salt of the Earth,” and Nick Broomfield’s verite serial killer investigation, “Tales of the Grim Sleeper.” Unlike years past, all five films look like viable Best Documentary candidates come Oscar time, making the Ida Awards even more influential. Past winners include “The Square” (2013), “Searching for Sugar Man” (2012), “Nostalgia for Light” (2011), and “Waste Land” (2010). For his work founding the Sundance Institute and producing documentaries through Sundance Productions, the Ida Awards will honor Robert Redford with its career achievement award.

In theaters now, "Keep On Keepin' On" explores the moving relationship between jazz icon Clark Terry and his 23-year-old protégé, piano prodigy Justin Kauflin. As Terry begins to lose his sight due to complications from advanced diabetes, he forms a special bond with Justin who is already blind, and the two support each other in ways that no one else can. Mr. Terry recently spoke with Shadow And Act about his experiences making the movie and some of the wisdom gleaned from his lengthy and prolific career of performing and teaching jazz. What made him decide to teach other musicians throughout his career: My older sister Ada Mae's husband Sy...

Awards: Anne Thompson's Updated Oscar Predictions 2015 "Boyhood" Star Patricia Arquette Will Campaign for Supporting Actress Oscar Four Reasons Why Clark Terry Doc "Keep On Keepin' On" Is Oscar Bait Updated: Foreign Language Oscar Contenders Where Are the Missing Pictures? Box Office: "Skeleton Twins" Scores Best Limited Opening Since "Boyhood" Top Ten Box Office Takeaways: "No Good Deed" Tops Weak Field, "The Drop" Scores, "The Giver" Soars News & Features: As TriStar Lands Ang Lee, Who's In Line to Replace Sony's Pascal? Fantastic Fest Preview: 10 Must-See Films How Kevin Kline Helped Israel Horovitz's "My Old Lady" Film Debut It's Not Getting Better for Women in Hollywood, But There Is a Silver Lining "New Girl" vs. "The Mindy Project": One's a Winner Take a "Walk Among the Tombstones" with Cinematographer Mihai Malaimare...

Today's new ratings are kicked off with the prequel to The Conjuring, Annabelle, scoring an R-rating, just as the first film did. We also have "R" ratings for the upcoming doc Keep On Keepin' On and Jason Reitman's Men, Women & Children, which I saw here in Toronto on Saturday (read my review). Two more Toronto titles are in today's bulletin, the first is a "PG-13" for the excellent The Imitation Game (read my review), which has a hysterical "historical smoking" reason, and the other is an amended rating reason for Nightcrawler. The original "R" rating for Nightcrawler as for violence, bloody images, and language. That has now changed to being for "violence including graphic images, and for language". Check out the complete bulletin below. After The Fall Rated R For language and some sexual content. Against The Sun Rated PG For thematic material involving peril and hardships, and For language.

There are a lot of familiar faces in the just announced 2014 Telluride Film Festival line-up, but as much as this fest is about what's officially announced, it's also about what's not mentioned as secret screenings are pretty much what makes Telluride such a buzzy fest, though this year a little bit of snow may also be part of the conversation. As for the titles announced so far you have Venice early standout Birdman, Jon Stewart's Rosewater, The Imitation Game and Jean-Marc Vallee's Wild along with a Ton of Cannes crossover pics including Foxcatcher, The Homesman, Leviathan, Mommy, Mr. Turner, Red Army, Wild Tales and Two Days, One Night. There is plenty of Toronto crossover with many of this pics as well, which also includes Ramin Bahrani's 99 Homes, the new Martin Scorsese documentary The 50 Year Argument, Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence and Ethan Hawke's Seymour among others.

Telluride — With all the reindeer games going on in the fall festival world, a lot of the drama and mystery surrounding Telluride's perennially on-the-lowdown program began to seep out like a steadily deflating balloon this year. Toronto, Venice and New York notations of "World Premiere," "Canada Premiere," "New York Premiere" or "International Premiere" and the like made it all rather obvious which films were heading to the San Juans for the 41st edition of the tiny mining village's cinephile gathering, and which were not. But the fact is, if you're in it just for the surprises — or certainly, for the awards-baiting heavies — you're never going to be fully satisfied by the Telluride experience. That having been said, this year's program might just be the most exciting one in my six years of attending. Starting with all of the stuff we were expecting, indeed, Cannes players "Foxcatcher," "Mr. Turner" and "Leviathan...

Here are some International Documentary Association (Ida) News:

The Ida Documentary Screening Series brings some of the year's best documentaries to the Ida community and members of industry guilds and organizations. Screenings conclude with Q&A discussions with filmmakers, moderated by journalists from Media Partners Indiewire and The Nation.

Series kicks off September 11, 2014 with "Keep On Keepin' On" at the Landmark in L.A.

See what's screening and RSVP today!

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With Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy doing far better opening weekend than anyone expected, it's looking like the four movies opening this weekend will be settling for second to fifth place at best, as it should pull a solid repeat even with the typically larger summer movie second weekend drop-off. The movie with the best chance for second place is the Michael Bay-produced reinvention of the popular .80s cartoon and comic characters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Paramount), starring Megan Fox and Will Arnett, which hopes to kick-off a new franchise ala Transformers and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. The three other movies will be fighting to bring in some late summer moviegoers without the draw of what will be the top two movies.

This week's "Chosen One" is the unconventional relationship comedy What If (CBS Films), starring Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan and Adam Driver, with an...

At the close of the 40th Seattle Film Festival on Sunday, June 8th, the winners of the Golden Space Needle and Competition Awards were announced. This year's 25-day festival presented 452 films from 83 countries. The festival's Artistic Director Carl Spence said, "This has been an extraordinary 40th anniversary Festival. From welcoming back Richard Linklater to Seattle with his groundbreaking epic 'Boyhood,' to honoring Laura Dern, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Quincy Jones for their masterful work, to welcoming Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who has brought Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch to life for years, to the hundreds of first-time directors making their debut, it's been another year of indelible cinematic experiences." The Golden Space Needle Awards were determined by festival audiences, who cast nearly 90,000 ballots. Results included Richard Linklater's "Boyhood," Alan Hicks' documentary "Keep On Keepin' On," and Peres Owino's "Bound: Africans Versus African Americans." Check out the.

It began as a Kickstarter campaign, raising $43,406, and now Alan Hicks' documentary Keep On Keepin' On has won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and been picked up by Radius-twc for distribution later this year. Produced by Quincy Jones you know there is going to be an Oscar push for this one, which comes with the following synopsis: In his melodic debut, Australian director Hicks spent four years following the charming and sometimes poignant mentorship between jazz-legend Clark Terry and blind piano prodigy, Justin Kaulflin, during a pivotal moment in each of their lives. At eighty-nine years old, 'Ct' has played alongside Duke Ellington and Count Basie; his pupils include Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, but his most unlikely friendship is with Justin, a 23-year-old with uncanny talent but debilitating nerves. As Justin prepares for a competition that could jumpstart his budding career, Ct's failing health threatens his own.

Weinstein boutique label RADiUS-twc has acquired both worldwide rights and remake rights for director Al Hicks' music doc "Keep On Keepin' On," winner of the Audience Award at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. Do we have the next "20 Feet From Stardom" in our midst? Produced by Paula DuPre' Pesman ("The Cove," "Chasing Ice") and seven-time Oscar nominee Quincy Jones, the film also picked up Tribeca's Best New Documentary Director prize for first-timer Hicks.  Funded partly on Kickstarter, the film spans four years in the lives of jazz legend and pioneer Clark Terry and Justin Kaulflin, a blind piano prodigy. As Kaulflin prepares for a career-altering competition, Terry's health begins to wane, and these pivotal moments become the center of an inspirational and iconic story. The acquisition of "Keep On Keepin' On" was inked by RADiUS Evp Dan Guando and co-presidents Tom Quinn and Jason Janego. RADiUS has been busily picking up...

"Chef" and "Keep On Keepin' On" won the Heinecken Audience Awards at the the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, the festival announced tonight. "Chef," written and directed by Jon Favreau, won the Narrative award. "Keep On Keepin’ On," directed by Alan Hicks, won the Documentary award. Hicks also was honored at the Festival awards on Thursday with the award for Best New Documentary Director. Each award comes with a cash prize of $25,000. Separately, Radius-twc acquired worldwide rights as well as remake rights for the documentary "Keep On Keepin' On," which had its premiere at Tribeca. The film was produced by Academy Award nominee Quincy Jones and Paula DuPre' Pesmen ("The Cove"). Read More: Tribeca Film Festival Winners Include "Zero Motivation" and "Point and Shoot" Throughout the Festival, which kicked off on April 16, audiences have had the chance to vote for the Heineken Audience Awards. Films in the World Narrative Competition, World...

For someone who says he has "zero experience in the industry," Alan Hicks seems set to secure success at Tribeca this year. His feature debut "Keep On Keepin' On" follows 89-year-old jazz legend Clark Terry (Quincy Jones's first teacher) over four years.  Tell us about yourself: I'm a musician from Wollongong, Australia. I grew up surfing and playing the drums. I moved to NYC when I was 18 years old and studied Jazz at William Patterson University. It was there that I met the great Clark Terry. I played in Clark's band for a few years. My good mate from high school Ad Hart (Director of Photography) and I spent 5 years making this documentary about Clark and one of his other students, a blind piano player named Justin Kauflin. Biggest challenge in completing this project? The biggest challenge was trying to figure out how to make a film. I had...

New films starring Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Aubrey Plaza, Olivia Wilde, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson —and not one, but two movies featuring James Franco — round out the lineup of 2014's Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from April 16th to the 27th in New York City.

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Marquee names dot this year's Spotlight section, with Jon Favreau's Chef, a comedy about a beleaguered chef who has a public meltdown and decides to take his cuisine on the road, featuring a cast that includes Downey Jr.