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The OId Man and the Gun was announced as Robert Redford’s last movie as an actor. “I will stay in the business as a director and producer,” he assured us, adding that he never said, “This is my last movie.

“You cannot be afraid of ambition,” says Renée Ehrlich Kalfus, a nominee of a BAFTA for Chocolat, and the winner of the Designers Guild Award for Hidden Figures. “You have to stay connected to your drive and ambition, and you have got to know what you know.

Ryan Murphy taught Billy Porter to dream the impossible.   Like being a leading character on a network television show, Pose, that is about his community.

HFPA Grantee Live Readings of famous screenplays, old-style musical performances accompanying film screenings and supporting filmmakers before, during and after their actual shooting takes place. Film Independent at LACMA has three specific programs and event series that the HFPA has supported over the years: LIVE READ has been immensely successful and interesting, where name actors, directors and writers have put on a stage reading of famous films.

As the Venice Film Festival came to an end on Saturday night and Toronto is in full swing, the attention of Hollywood is already on the new Awards Season, with the Golden Globes scheduled for January 6 and the Academy Awards for February 24. But audiences at large, here in the U.

Debuting in Venice and screening at TIFF, Vox Lux is writer-director’s Brady Corbet‘s musical tale of the rise of a pop Diva from accidental 90s child prodigy to bona fide superstar and fame addict. In Venice, the film was a symmetrical counterpoint of sorts to A Star Is Born which preceded it on the Lido by a few days.

Six emerging filmmakers from diverse nationalities are the recipients of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s first Residency Grant, in partnership with Film Independent. From the TIFF’s Filmmaker Lab, the USA’s Georgia Fu and Cynthia Kao, and Georgia’s Rati Tsiteladze were the winners.

Roma, Alfonso Cuarón’s valentine to his childhood in Mexico City won the Golden Lion at the 75th Venice Film Festival. Accepting the award, Cuarón said that the win was  “incredibly meaningful” to him, and noted that the festival’s closure took place on the birthday of the woman who inspired the film.

In 1977, Dario Argento's supernatural horror Suspiria redefined the genre while terrifying audiences, in Italy and all over Europe. 40 years later Luca Guadagnino, whose Call Me By Your Name was a Golden Globe and Oscar sensation last year, revisits Argento's cult movie with an 'auteur reboot' - and it's the first time that a horror film was in competition for a Leone d'Oro at the 2018 Venice Film Festival.

As Gabriel Chavarria tells us, he never chose acting but just happened to be in the right place at the right time. From the moment he was discovered by a casting director who was searching for a Latino kid to act opposite Hilary Swank in Richard LaGravenese's Freedom Writers, Gabriel Chavarria knew that he was destined to a life in front of a camera.