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Kids in the Spotlight (KITS) provides screenwriting and film production courses to young adults in Los Angeles’ foster care system. The founder, Tige Charity, stands behind this courageous effort to give underprivileged youths a creative outlet, which sometimes turns out to be life-changing.

On April 3, 2016, at 2 pm EST, the world was rocked by the publication of the Panama Papers investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. In the biggest collaboration of its kind, 376 journalists from 107 media companies in 80 countries sifted through, investigated and fact-checked 11.

Doing the Work is a series profiling key recipients of HFPA Philanthropy Margaret Wu was happy to see the sycamore trees. Not in-person, but represented in their true glory on-screen through The Newcomer, a ten-minute short film that follows a Canadian expatriate who begins to acclimate to the streets of Shanghai.

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Doing the Work is a series profiling key recipients of HFPA Philanthropy When Tige Charity was still working in the corporate world as an insurance specialist, her husband taught an acting course at an all-girl group home. The director of the institution invited Charity and her husband to tour the facilities.

Doing the Work is a series profiling key recipients of HFPA Philanthropy Wherever there is a film in Los Angeles, there is also NewFilmmakers LA (NFMLA) – a nonprofit that works on behalf of people who aspire to help one another succeed in the industry and who believe that they have something to contribute. Not only does NFMLA screen works that are overlooked by the major film festivals each month, but also it stands ready to collaborate with other organizations on their respective events.

The HFPA has the privilege of supporting many schools for young artists, particularly in underrepresented communities. Here the young and amazing poets of Get Lit give their take on a more hopeful, and inclusive future.

The HFPA supports freedom of the press and the safety of journalists everywhere as they pursue the truth. .

Doing the Work is a series profiling key recipients of HFPA Philanthropy A beloved professor and now the interim Dean at California Institute for the Arts (CalArts) School of Film/Video, Abigail Severance is not your typical academic, even by film school standards. For her, it all started in the ‘90s in San Francisco when the queer culture was booming, and Severance discovered artistic expression through photography and poetry.

Anyone that has visited the Dodger Stadium Covid testing site in Los Angeles during these long pandemic months, knows the heroic work of CORE. The non-profit organization has provided free testing available to all comers, even as health and government institutions faltered under less than sterling leadership.