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With Shadow in the Cloud, New Zealand filmmaker Roseanne Liang has created a fantasy action film with a feminist twist. The year is August 1943, and the film opens at Auckland allied airbase, where Maude Garretts embarks on the B-17 bomber plane called “The Fool’s Errand” on a secret military mission.

There have been many documentaries and films about Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ creative force, widely recognized as genius due to his novel approaches, pop composition, exceptional aptitude and mastery of recording techniques. But most have focused on his 1960s heyday or the difficult times during struggles with mental illness and drug addiction.

Leonard Bernstein was one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history. A renowned conductor and composer, a music educator and author, a humanitarian activist.

Michelle Rodriguez, a fixture of the Fast and Furious franchise since 2001, spoke with HFPA journalists in 2000 about her film debut in Girlfight, written and directed by Karyn Kusama, where she played a teenage boxer. “Karyn made me watch Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire, and I was really impressed by his composure, then, later on, I did happen to see, Apocalypse Now and I was like, ‘Wow, this guy is pretty amazing.

Before F9: The Fast Saga speeds up to the domestic box office race this week, Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, and Salma Hayek’s The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard hit the bullseye in North America and emerged number one.

The American Cinematheque in Los Angeles hosted a conversation about Barry Jenkins’ new 10-part anthology series The Underground Railroad with female lead Thuso Mbedu, cinematographer James Laxton, editor Joi McMillan, costume designer Caroline Eselin, hairstylist Lawrence Davis and makeup artist Doniella Davy. Historically, the Underground Railroad was a network of both, Black and White people who helped enslaved escapees from plantations in the South make their way north by offering transportation, protection, and shelter.

Inspired by Matthew Van Meter’s “non-fiction novel” Deep Delta Justice, Nancy Buirski’s documentary, A Crime on the Bayou depicts a series of systemic and systematic wrongs committed against two vastly different men, the Black Gary Duncan and the Jewish Richard Sobol. The film’s release is timed to this year’s Juneteenth commemoration of the end of slavery announced in Texas in 1865, the last Confederate state to formally adopt President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation.

Over the last 26 years, the HFPA has donated $45 million to entertainment-related nonprofit organizations, academic programs, and humanitarian organizations, provided more than 2,224 scholarships to college students, and funded the restoration of over 138 classic films.  This year, licensing from the Golden Globe Awards has allowed the HFPA to donate over $6 million to 74 nonprofits and colleges that assist diverse filmmakers and students interested in filmmaking, film preservation, journalistic organizations committed to free speech, and humanitarian organizations worldwide that support refugees and that provide critical aid when natural disasters occur.

It is with great sadness that we post this remembrance of our friend and colleague Yoram, sent to us by his family. Yoram’s wit, intelligence, culture, and humor will be irreplaceable at the HFPA.

The dark shadow of the mystery behind a shocking suicide looms over Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, Morgan Neville's documentary about the world-renowned chef and TV celeb. On June 8, 2018, the body of the beloved author and host was found in his hotel – he had taken his own life during the shoot of a new episode of his TV show.