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Iranian actress Zahar Amir-Ebrahimi had to flee Iran in 2006 because of a leaked tape with private content of a sexual nature on it. Not only was she humiliated and harassed, she was also facing a prison sentence and 100 lashes for her ‘crime’.

Blade Runner (1982), directed by Golden Globe nominee Ridley Scott, has been with us for four decades.   The opportunity to revisit Blade Runner via streaming or in its various available versions, including Blu-Ray, is a chance to retell the story of the protagonists behind the making of the film, considered by many as the best of its kind.

When Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont won the 2018 Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard prize for his trans-female ballet dancer film debut, Girl, he couldn’t have imagined four years later he would be back – not just showing his second film, Close, but taking home the Grand Prize. “When I heard that the Cannes film festival wanted to put this film in competition among many directors that I deeply admire, like Kelly Reichardt, Claire Denis, and David Cronenberg, I was in an Airbnb in Amsterdam and I jumped around for 25 minutes straight and then called my mother and shouted into the phone!” the writer-director told fellow Belgian colleague, HFPA member Greet Ramaekers, in our “Golden Globes Around the World” podcast.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced an agreement to co-sponsor a series of Global Forums with the Narrating Behavior Change Program of the World Bank to promote the growth of edutainment programming around the world; the use of entertainment media with educational objectives. “This partnership seeks to connect Hollywood with the global development community by developing new creative programming with the goal of helping to promote important sustainability goals, which improve the lives of millions of people struggling with healthcare, environmental and other challenges,” said Helen Hoehne, president of the HFPA.

Guadalajara International Film Festival June 2022 With gender politics raging while women artists and professionals struggle to secure equitable footing in the world, female-driven stories continue to enrich global cinema. Flávia Neves and Marianna Bastos are two new Brazilian filmmakers who dare to challenge a history of oppression and whose films competed in the Ibero-American Features section at the Guadalajara International Film Festival.

OUTFEST was established in 1982 in Los Angeles as the first and only global LGBTQIA+ arts, media, and entertainment organization to support artists, communities, and filmmakers to change the world through their stories. Since 2005, the HFPA has donated almost $600,000 to this wonderful non-profit organization that last year hosted over 300 screenings and panels, six programs and engaged with over 50,000 attendees.

Every summer, National Sunglasses Day spotlights the importance of wearing tinted eyewear to shield our eyes from the UV rays. People have been protecting their eyes from the glare of the sun since prehistoric times when generations of people living in the snow-bound Arctic Circle used pieces of flattened walrus, ivory or caribou antler fitted to their eyes to protect them from burning snow and ice reflections.

Speaking on June 13 via a Variety streaming room event, some of the cast of Ted Lasso, including Hannah Waddingham, Phil Dunster, Toheeb Jimoh, Nick Mohammed, and Sarah Niles, gathered via Zoom to talk about the award-winning series (including six Golden Globe nominations and two awards). In the previous season, Waddingham’s soccer executive, Rebecca, had some upheaval in her romantic life when her relationship with AFC Richard player, Sam (Toheeb Jimoh), came to an end.

Aiming to follow in his father’s swashbuckling footsteps, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. bought the rights to the 1926 book “His Majesty, the King: A Romantic Love Chase of the Seventeenth Century” by Cosmo Hamilton in 1941.

Elvis Presley is King again. After Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick duked it out for number one, locked in a dead heat, the King prevailed over Capt.