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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has announced a new initiative in which rising filmmakers from the 2018 Venice International Film Festival and the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival will be selected for a three-week residency program in partnership with Film Independent. The announcement was made at a reception during day three of the 75th Venice Film Festival, by HFPA president Meher Tatna and Alberto Barbera, Artistic Director of the Venice International Film FestivalThree filmmakers (writers, directors, producers) from The Orizonti Section of the Venice International Film Festival and three filmmakers from TIFF's Filmmaker Lab, the Festival's flagship talent development programme, will be selected to travel to Los Angeles from January 2 – 23, 2019 for mentorship, master classes and workshops.

 “In this film, I was really revisiting a period of my life,” says Alfonso Cuarón of his latest film, Roma. “But I did it in  a very specific way.

Damien Chazelle is the youngest director whose film had the honor of opening the Venice Film Festival twice within two years. Two years ago with his successful, Golden Globe-winning, La La Land and again this year with his new film, First Man, in which Chazelle once again teams up with Ryan Gosling.

HFPA Grantee Imagine a huge screen reaching far into the African night sky. A Hollywood movie is being shown.

Golden Globe winner - and Guatemala-born- Oscar Isaac debuts this week as a producer with the thrilling dramatic account of the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the SS commander who masterminded the brutal extermination of six million Jews during World War II, The film, Operation Finale,  recounts the Argentinian capture from the POV of Mossad agent Peter Malkin (Isaac) who convinced Eichmann (Ben Kingsley) to sign his release from Argentina to stand trial in Israel. Oscar Isaac is an accomplished musician - his love for music was shown in the Cohen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis.

Lately, she has been in the headlines because of the #metoo movement, fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment and addressing fat-shaming on her new Netflix TV show Insatiable.   In this podcast, Alyssa Milano – known for TV series like Who’s the Boss, Melrose Place, Charmed, and Mistresses – tells HFPA journalist Helen Hoehne how she became the person she is today.

The 75th edition of the Venice Film Festival starts on Wednesday, August 29th, on another planet. The moon, to be precise, when Damien Chazelle returns to the Lido to open the fest with First Man, covering the defining years in the life of Neil Armstrong.

Golden Globe winner James Cameron has been a sci-fi fan since he started to read and watch television. And a practitioner of the genre since 1984, the year he made The Terminator.

The global box office chart this week was dominated by Ant-Man and the Wasp. And no, this is not a mix-up with a report from seven weeks ago, when the second installment of the Disney and Marvel’s franchise had its domestic and international debut.