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Through our annual grant program, the HFPA helped non-profit group ‘Australians in Film’ to support IndigenousLA, a program to bring Indigenous filmmakers to Hollywood for the first time, to expand their career.  Warwick Thornton is one of Australia’s most acclaimed filmmakers.

Love Sonia is the harrowing account of two sisters robbed of their innocence when one is sold by her debt-ridden father, and the other tries to rescue her but becomes trapped in the “flesh trade” herself. A troublesome and challenging journey that takes us through the red-light districts of Mumbai and Hong Kong and the rich prostitution rings of Los Angeles.

Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren is famous for her children’s stories such as “Pippi Longstocking” and “Karlsson-on-the-Roof”, but Becoming Astrid takes us back in time when she was 16 years old and still Astrid Ericsson living in a Swedish village. We meet her before she started writing fiction and just before she gets hired for her first job at the local newspaper in Vimmerby.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has selected Isan Elba as the Golden Globe Ambassador for the 2019 Golden Globe Awards season. Isan is the daughter of Golden Globe Award winner Idris Elba and makeup artist and businesswoman Kim Elba.

What happens when a Pakistani teenager grows up in Norway? What will people say about her and her family if the rules are broken? These are some of the questions raised by What Will People Say, written and directed by Pakistani director Iram Haq and produced by Norwegian Maria Ekerhovd. In the film,16-year-old Nisha (Maria Mozhdah) lives a double life: at school and out with her friends she’s a regular Norwegian girl, with girlfriends and a boyfriend, but at home, with her family and older brother, she is the perfect Pakistani daughter.

Butterflies, director Tolga Karacelik's Sundance Grand Jury Award winner for Dramatic World Cinema, is the story of three siblings reunited after a call from their estranged father Mazhar. The one hour 57-minute drama-comedy was shot in 18 days in two different cities and two different countries with an all Turkish cast and crew.

In White Boy Rick,  Golden Globe winner Matthew McConaughey lets first-time actor Richie Merritt shine in the role of Rick Wershe Jr. , the youngest informant for the FBI.

HFPA Grantee An actor’s life means uncertainty, especially when they are starting out. There is no such thing as job security.

HFPA GranteeThe Los Angeles LGBT Center is the world's largest LGBT organization, reaching 30,000 youth and adults, 90% of which are low-income, through direct services at six sites in Hollywood, West Hollywood and Boyle Heights – four in the Los Angeles Promise Zone. It has four service categories: Health/Mental Health; Social Services; Culture and Education; Leadership and Advocacy.

How to make the Tokyo International Film Festival more attractive to Japanese audiences -  that was the task Kohei Ando took on four years ago when he became the festival’s programming advisor. “I was teaching cinema at the university and my then student asked how I would make the festival more appealing.