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The annual GALACC gala was held at the Beverly Hilton to celebrate the foundation whose mission is to support Los Angeles City College through fundraising and financing student financial aid services and academic programs at Los Angeles’ oldest public community college. With one of the most diverse student bodies in the country LACC serves almost 20,000 students, most of who depend on financial aid for access to higher education.

Ben Affleck is back on screen with The Accountant, a thriller directed by Gavin O’Connor. Later in the fall our twice Golden Globe winner will be back to theaters with the Prohibition-era drama Live By Night , his first outing behind the camera since Argo – a project that earned him his second Golden Globe, and his first as director.

In September 2016, a delegation of the HFPA members was once again invited to Finland to attend the 29th edition of the Helsinki International Film Festival (HIFF). This year members of the HFPA delegation were given the same warm welcome by our hosts: Sara Norberg, Executive Director of HIFF; Laura Laaksonen, Finnish Film Affair Producer; Jaana Puskala, head of International Department of the Finnish Film Foundation: Juulia Klemola, Finnish Film Affair Coordinator, Anni Wessman, Finnish FilmWeek Producer and Anna-Maria Rusi, in charge of all scheduling.

The main juries of the 12th Zurich Film Festival’s three competition categories have awarded their Golden Eyes to Hymyilevä Mies / The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki (Finland, Germany, Sweden) by Juho Kuosmanen (International Feature Film). Madame B.

This weekend’s big winner at home and abroad was Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Tim Burton’s dark fantasy romp is adapted from the popular 2011 novel of the same name by Ransom Riggs.

When the HFPA visited the set of Woody Allen’s first ever TV project in New York last spring it was still without title. Now Crisis in Six Scenes is streaming on Amazon.

His films have grossed more than 2. 5 billion dollars worldwide, yet when Hugh Grant received Zurich's prestigious Golden Icon Award for his life's work at the Zurich Film Festival, he seemed surprised and couldn’t help but joke.

 Golden Globe winning director Oliver Stone, at the Zurich Film Festival with his politically charged film Snowden, slammed governments who argue more surveillance is necessary to fight terrorism. “I disagree with security at all cost.

Andrei Konchalovsky's РАЙ (Paradise) - winner of Venice’s Silver Lion for Best Director and  Russia’s submission in the foreign language film category of the Academy Awards - is, according to its director, writer and producer, a stern warning: ”History is full of great tragedies, most of which remain in our minds as ancient misdeeds that couldn’t possibly be replicated in the present day”, he says. “What has happened is a warning.

Chesley Burnett Sullenberger, III (born January 23, 1951) is an international speaker on airline safety and a commercial airline captain for 30 years. But “Sully” will be forever remembered as a national hero after he successfully executed an emergency water landing in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009.