Grantees

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.

HFPA Grantee Imagine a huge screen reaching far into the African night sky. A Hollywood movie is being shown.

HFPA Grantee Founded in 1955, the Young Musicians Foundation was created by child piano prodigy Sylvia Kunin alongside legendary cellist Gregor Pitatagorsky and composer Elmer Bernstein in order to provide musical education to the youth regardless of social or economic background. Over the last 60 plus years, YMF, partnering with the Debut Chamber Orchestra, has premiered over 43 pieces, featuring the works of Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky, Ingolf Dahl, Michael Torke and Paul Chihara, among others.

HFPA Grantee From specialty items for preemies to breakthroughs in heart surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) is a nonprofit institution that provides pediatric healthcare and helps patients more than half a million times a year. CHLAs history began in a small house on the corner of Alpine and Castelar Streets (which is now Hill Street in DTLA’s Chinatown section) in 1901.

HFPA Grantee “Dedicated to building and supporting a thriving documentary culture” the IDA fosters a form which in recent years has vastly expanded, producing some of the most profound and exciting films of the past decade. The documentary renaissance has brought new voices to bear on film making with works of insight, lyricism, political force and passion, expanding as the IDA states, “our understanding of shared human experience.

HFPA Grantee They are between 14-22 and have covered the Democratic National Convention, the Women’s March and yes, the Golden Globes. They are young women from under-served communities that find empowerment and on-the-job training in digital journalism and media to bring their powerful perspectives to the global media stage.

HFPA Grantee While its campus has existed for over 100 years, LAUSD/USC Media Arts & Engineering Magnet's transformation into a cinematic arts magnet happened less than five years ago. Affectionately known as USC MAE, this 6th – 12th-grade school is located just south of downtown Los Angeles in University Park, right across the street from USC.

HFPA Grantee Echo Park Film Center, the brainchild of cultural activists and filmmakers extraordinaire Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo, is a community-based outpost providing technical and critical film education to the youth of Los Angeles’ diverse Echo Park district. The HFPA supports filmmaking workshops at the Film Center, an annual program which provides free screenings and multi-week classes on creative and technical skills, teaching the lost art of actual 16 mm filmmaking to young people.

HFPA Grantee In 1992, in the wake of the LA riots, producer Dorothy Thompson created Streetlights, a nonprofit organization which today has a proven track record of bringing a skilled, ethnically diverse workforce to the behind-the-camera world of films, television, commercials and other media platforms. As a Job Training, Job Placement and Career Advancement organization, Streetlight’s mission is to create careers, not just jobs, for underrepresented young women and men from diverse backgrounds, while increasing diversity throughout the entertainment industry.

HFPA Grantee The California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) is a cutting-edge and immersive four-week program for talented and motivated high school students in the arts, held on the campus of the California Institute of the Arts each summer. The school provides education in seven artistic disciplines: Animation, Creative Writing, Dance, Film, Music, Theater and Visual Arts.