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The HFPA’s Ali Sar talks to Genndy Tartakovsky the director behind the Hotel Transylvania franchise and one of the most distinctive voices in animation todayThere is a child in every animator, and Genndy Tartakovsky is no exception. The challenge is how to make the best use of this talent.

With the passing of one of Hollywood’s truly legendary leading ladies, the HFPA’s Phil Berk remembers a one-of-a-kind icon. Maureen O’Hara gave her last HFPA press conference in June of 1991.

Look closely. Of course you are either scared out of your wits or enthralled by Guillermo del Toro’s masterful retelling of a classic gothic ghost story, but take a moment and try.

In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly travels to October 21, 2015 to try and save his, as yet unborn, children. Well, the future is finally here! On this same momentous date Ana Maria Bahiana goes back to, well.

Three years after the events depicted at the end of Danny Boyle’s biopic Steve Jobs, Jobs was in San Francisco talking to us about an entirely different venture: Pixar, the animation studio created, in 1986, by two scientists from the New York Institute of Technology – Drs. Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith – with a $10 million investment from the founder of Apple Computers.

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The Helsinki International Film Festival was back for its 28th edition this year with its usual, whimsical subtitle “Love and Anarchy”. With 190 films on 12 screens from September 17 to the 27, the 11-day festival attracted over 62,000 visitors last year and saw record numbers of international guests this year.

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Andrea Bocelli, in town to tape a special concert of his upcoming new album, stopped by the HFPA to talk about the record. Simply titled “Cinema” it's a tribute to the music of film featuring new arrangement of songs from such classics as Golden Globe-winners Cinema Paradiso and Gladiator.