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Shortly before the HFPA partnered with the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, a Film Festival celebrating Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists was getting a great reception in Philadelphia. The Blackstar Film Festival, affectionally known as Philadelphia’s ‘Black Sundance,’ was founded in 2012 by filmmaker and writer Maori Karmael Holmes to showcase the work of filmmakers of color.

Anne Celeste Heche, the 53-year-old Emmy Award-nominee actress, has died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.   On Friday, August 12th, the doctors established that she was brain dead, but still on life support in anticipation of organ donations.

Bullet Train is the new number 1 at the box office in France. Directed by David Leitch with Brad Pitt, Joey King, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bullet Train is an action comedy about five assassins aboard a fast-moving bullet train who find out their missions have something in common.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced the re-election of Helen Hoehne to another term as President by an overwhelming margin. “I am humbled and truly grateful to be re-elected,” said Helen Hoehne, President of the HFPA.

The claustrophobia-inducing Thirteen Lives (Amazon Prime) captures the real life challenges of rescuing 12 boys, aged from 11 to 16, and their soccer coach, who were on a fun jaunt in the inner caverns of a mountain – Doi Nang Non (the Mountain of the Sleeping Lady) – in Thailand, when a sudden monsoon hit, flooding so rapidly the outer-lying caves and their exit, that the thirteen were at risk from the rising waters and from compromised oxygen levels. Some of the children did not know how to swim.

Music has always been considered the primary vehicle of human memories. Each August 12, music enthusiasts celebrate National Vinyl Day to recognize an invention that has allowed people to capture their memories forever.

Turning 80 years old this year is everybody’s favorite deer, Bambi. This film marked the 5th animated offering from Walt Disney Animation and has remained a staple of beloved children’s movies for many generations, despite the horrific death of Bambi’s mother.

The ’90s were a complex time for the industry – the dawn of digital, the slow death of physical effects, the transition from VHS to DVD, the rise of higher image and better sound in theaters, and the growth of the multi-screen multiplex. It was a bonanza time for studios, and the audiences were eager to consume the new elements of the end of the century.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced its sponsorship of the Academy-accredited Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, a nine-day event for independent and established African American filmmakers to showcase, screen, and promote emerging feature, documentary, and short films from across the world. The HFPA will present a panel discussion on its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in support of access for underserved communities in Hollywood and international journalism.

He says he is one of the most famous names in the history of cinema. “Indiana Jones it's me”, he claims when meeting people.