Grantees

HFPA Grantee The mission of the Sundance Institute International Initiative – especially at the beginning – sounded simpler than its execution ever was. The goal: to enhance the global filmmaking landscape by supporting international independent film artists through a continuum of production.

HFPA Grantee Almost 27 years ago, Wenda Fong used to joke that there were more space aliens on TV or film than Asians. “We were invisible,” she said.

HFPA Grantee Founded in 1929, Santa Monica College is considered one of the premier community colleges within the Los Angeles area, leading the 113 community colleges in the region in transfers to schools within the UC (University of California) system. The school currently holds an enrollment of 30,000 and offers over 90 fields of study spread out over five separate campuses, including a fairly new film production program, which was added to the school’s curriculum in 2013 offering Associates Degrees and Certificates of Achievement in film production.

HFPA Grantee The Department of Cinema and Television Arts of California State University, Northridge – better known as CSUN – is one of the “oldest” grantees of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 22 years to be exact. It is one of HFPA’s inaugural university programs, providing institutional grants and film production fellowships for students, a mostly working-class constituency in need of help.

HFPA Grantee Located in Queens, New York, the Museum of the Moving Image is an institution dedicated to advancing the “understanding, enjoyment, and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television and digital media by presenting exhibitions, education programs, significant moving-image works, and interpretive programs, and collecting and preserving moving-image related artifacts. ” The museum was founded in 1988 and has since gone through immense growth, with a $67 million expansion in 2008 and attendance hitting 120,000 in 2011.

HFPA Grantee   California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) is a nationally ranked comprehensive university dedicated to affordable higher education and career success after graduation.  With 109 degreed programs and an enrollment of 40,000 diverse students – more than half of whom are the first in their family to pursue a college degree – the university is a major force in the intellectual and cultural life of the region, state and nation, as well as a catalyst for economic and social mobility.

HFPA Grantee In 1997 a group of Latino activists and cinema lovers living in Los Angeles realized that there was a lack of exposure of Latin American film and film culture within the community. In response, they began screening vintage Mexican films in L.

HFPA Grantee Created in 1981, the American Cinematheque has been honoring and promoting the art of motion pictures, presenting films and videos otherwise not available to the large public,  and establishing a dialogue between audience and filmmakers, in the realm of classical, independent and new talent filmmaking. Home base of the Cinematheque is the historic 1922 landmark Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Blvd, where the first Hollywood premiere of Robin Hood starring Douglas Fairbanks was held in 1922, and the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, where the Cinematheque started programming in 2005.

HFPA Grantee Project Involve (PI) is the most extensive artist development program of Film Independent (FI), a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles and designed to support as well as nurture independent cinema. PI offers 9 months of intensive free mentorship, education and career development for about 25-30 emerging filmmakers the majority of whom belong to minorities, such as women, African Americans and LGBTQ groups.

HFPA Grantee Kids In The Spotlight (KITS) is a non-profit organization that provides motivational training in film for foster children and youth (ages 11-19). KITS works with Foster Group Home Agencies around Los Angeles County and provides services to two-four group homes per year.