HFPA

“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.

Trapped, a nearly lost movie from 1949 which was restored last year thanks to a grant from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was the featured presentation at the opening night of Noir City 17, the annual festival sponsored by the Film Noir Foundation. The historic Castro movie theater in San Francisco was again the venue.

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.

HFPA GranteeTheater for everyone, especially those who never had the chance to go to the theater before. With that mission in mind, actor/director Tim Robbins founded The Actors' Gang in 1981.

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

HFPA GranteeThe Los Angeles LGBT Center is the world's largest LGBT organization, reaching 30,000 youth and adults, 90% of which are low-income, through direct services at six sites in Hollywood, West Hollywood and Boyle Heights – four in the Los Angeles Promise Zone. It has four service categories: Health/Mental Health; Social Services; Culture and Education; Leadership and Advocacy.

For 76 years the HFPA has been comprised of film journalist reporting on Hollywood for publications in their home countries. But through the years some members have also worked in the industry.

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

HFPA Grantee Ghetto Film School (GFS) is an award-winning nonprofit founded in 2000 to educate, develop and celebrate the next generation of American storytellers. The school looks for young talent from local communities and provides them with access, opportunity, and resources to pursue creative careers.