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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has announced a new initiative in which rising filmmakers from the 2018 Venice International Film Festival and the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival will be selected for a three-week residency program in partnership with Film Independent. The announcement was made at a reception during day three of the 75th Venice Film Festival, by HFPA president Meher Tatna and Alberto Barbera, Artistic Director of the Venice International Film FestivalThree filmmakers (writers, directors, producers) from The Orizonti Section of the Venice International Film Festival and three filmmakers from TIFF's Filmmaker Lab, the Festival's flagship talent development programme, will be selected to travel to Los Angeles from January 2 – 23, 2019 for mentorship, master classes and workshops.

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.

She stands just short of four feet tall in her Target dress and Steve Madden shoes, but for some she was the biggest presence at the HFPA Annual Grants Banquet red carpet.  Her name is Yasmine Leilah Malayeri -her mother is from Mexico, her father from Iran- and she was positioned at the head of the first row of press photographers covering the red carpet.

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