HFPA Philanthropy

New Filmmaker Los Angeles is an organization devoted to showcasing innovative films by emerging film makers. Throughout the year, the non-profit organization hosts a monthly film festival for the public and for industry professionals, showcasing the innovative cinematic works of talented rising filmmakers.

“If we allow these documents of our past to disappear, we end up with a narrow and shallow knowledge of how change happens, how problems can be solved.

The first Film Restoration Summit convened by the HFPA was held on March 9  at the historic Theater at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The building erected by United Artists founders Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks and specifically its flagship theater, with its ornate a baroque and Hollywood Spanish revival decorations, could not have been more appropriate for a discussion about the crisis facing film heritage around the world.

Among the glitter and glamour of the red carpet, they were a discreet presence but the five young filmmakers nevertheless embodied an important part of what the Golden Globes – and the HFPA – are about: a celebration of storytelling as global art form and universal language. We are talking about the five fellows of the first ever HFPA Residency who attended the HFPA Golden Globe Viewing party as our guests this year.

Through our annual grant program, the HFPA helped non-profit group ‘Australians in Film’ to support IndigenousLA, a program to bring Indigenous filmmakers to Hollywood for the first time, to expand their career.  Warwick Thornton is one of Australia’s most acclaimed filmmakers.

HFPA Grantee An actor’s life means uncertainty, especially when they are starting out. There is no such thing as job security.

HFPA Grantee Many universities and colleges offer film-related programs. Founded in 1967, the Mt.

There is probably no better place for a classic film festival than Lyon, France. After all, it’s the hometown of brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière who developed the Cinematographe projector and whose Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon, a 46-second documentary first shown in 1895, is considered the first motion picture ever made.

HFPA President Meher Tatna, with Festival Lumière director Thierry Frémeaux, introduces The Red Shoes to the audience on day two of the festival in Lyon, France. The masterpiece by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was restored by the UCLA Film Archives with financing from an HFPA grant.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented $3. 25 million at their annual Grants Banquet held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.