HFPA

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded with the mission of advancing the art of film. Over the last 28 years, the association has donated more than $55 million to organizations related to the entertainment industry as well as to humanitarian causes, has offered more than 2,200 scholarships to film students, and has funded the restoration of 138 films.

The Golden Globe Awards website, goldenglobes. com, recently won for its designer, Pastilla, the gold prize in the 2022 w3 Awards, the leading worldwide digital competition honoring the creative and marketing professionals behind websites, videos, marketing, mobile apps, social channels, and podcasts.

There will be no HFPA exclusive press conferences this year. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced today that the organization will not hold any press conferences for eligible content of the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards®.

On October 15, 2022, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) grantee community met at the offices of Film Independent, in midtown Los Angeles. Representatives from more than 60 organizations got together with HFPA members, including President Helen Hoehne, and Grants Officer Sandra Cuneo.

Voodoo Macbeth marks the first theatrical release from USC Originals in association with Warner Bros and was overseen by veteran producer and USC professor, John Watson (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Backdraft and The Outer Limits). The film was made almost entirely by past and present students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts – a long-time HFPA grant recipient – and is based on the true story behind the 1936 all-black Shakespeare production of Voodoo Macbeth.

The Zurich Film Festival has been bringing together established industry representatives and new talent with their ZFF Academy program since 2006. This year, the HFPA is proud to partner with the Zurich Summit and thus support the newly added ZFF Summit Climber program for up-and-coming talent in the field of film sales and distribution.

After a long absence due to the pandemic, California State University, Northridge (CSUN) senior undergraduate students of class 2020 were finally able to share their works on Wednesday night, September 14, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater. By the time the young and diverse crowd had settled into their seats, at least half an hour after the scheduled start time, the large venue was nearly full, overflowing with eager anticipation.

“This is to say goodbye and thank you,” said Gwen Deglise, the longtime head programmer of the American Cinematheque, from the stage of the Aero Theater in Santa Monica on Friday, September 9th, 2022. The audience, patrons, and team members responded with an emotional standing ovation and “Thank You, Gwen” shout-outs.

The AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) hate crimes which spiked at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to occur all over the country. The victims are usually the most vulnerable – the elderly or women.

In the 1970s, Italian film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto), a police chief kills his kinky mistress while they are making love, then leaves clues of his guilt, daring his colleagues to charge him with the crime. Gian Maria Volontè, in his most famous role as the nameless chief of the homicide division of Rome’s police force, is a charismatic sociopath driven to crack down on the anarchists participating in the riots roiling Rome.