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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.

The women went pale; the men were interesting.

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.

His career spans 17 years in film and television, and he has the charm, the look and the talent that an actor needs to become a star. Still, even if he had the lead in a brave 2006 TV film, directed by Agnieszka Holland, A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story, Jorge Daniel Pardo had to wait many years to get the opportunity he deserves.

Stars sparkle and shimmer at Venice – Guan Xiaotong, Naomi Watts, Guan Xiaotong.

Black and white finally turned up – but in unexpected ways. Legs are featured, and elegance remains prolific.

Golden Globe nominee Bradley Cooper stunned the audience at the Venice Film Festival with his directorial debut, a remake of A Star Is Born. Besides guiding Lady Gaga on a rock ‘n roll stage, Bradley plays the part of a down and out rock star consumed by pills and alcohol, who finds redemption in his love for music.

HFPA Grantee For over a decade, the Hollywood Foreign Press has been donating money to The Department of Film and Electronics at the California State University Long Beach, helping to bring students’ dream projects to life. This year was no different, as the HFPA donated a total of $95,000 to the department, with $60,000 going toward student scholarships, a $30,000 one-time grant for film documentary equipment, and a $5,000 scholarship endowment.