HFPA in Conversation

In honor of World Podcast Day, September 30, we’re sharing with you our top 10-rated podcasts of all time in our previously named "HFPA in Conversation” series, now rebranded "Golden Globes Around the World. ” Of the 114 episodes we’ve had the privilege of producing with actors, directors, cinematographers, composers, foreign filmmakers, writers, and others in the film and TV industry, it’s interesting to note that five men and five women equally made the list, and only one was not an actor but the groundbreaking female director, Greta Gerwig.

Italian composer and Golden Globe nominee Carlo Siliotto’s roots are in folk music. During his career he has written music for over 100 projects, ranging from theatrical features to documentaries and television series.

Actor and producer Jimmy Jean-Louis grew up in Haiti and France. He has lived in Spain, Italy, South Africa, and England before moving to the United States.

In spite of the ongoing pandemic, producer Rodrigo Teixeira is having a very busy year. And the next one is promising to be the same:  he has eleven projects on his slate, including two pictures shown in this year’s Cannes - Murina and Bergman Island -  and two new projects from directors James Gray and Luca Guadagnino.

Finnish director and writer Dome Karukoski loves drama. He tells HFPA journalist Tina Jøhnk Christensen that as a child he watched Macbeth on the BBC.

Sonia Nassery Cole’s father always told her that she could do anything. Afghan-born American filmmaker and human rights activist Nassery Cole tells HFPA journalist Patricia Danaher that attitude was embedded in her.

Filipino-American documentary filmmaker Ramona Diaz grew up watching western cinema. She tells HFPA journalist Ruben Nepales that she went to movies every Saturday with her dad.

Brazilian filmmaker Sandra Kogut loves people and their faces and that’s why she tells stories. She has developed a multi-talented career that began in performance and installation art and evolved into documentaries and feature films.

German director and screenwriter Christian Petzold plays with themes of mythology, love, freedom, innocence, and physical appearance in his latest movie, Undine. The protagonist (Paula Beer) works as a historian, lecturing on Berlin's urban development.

Egyptian-Tunisian actress Hend Sabry says that acting was her destiny. She tells HFPA journalist Husam Asi that she never sought cinema but it found her.