• Grantee News

    Josh Welsh, Film Independent President and Longtime Champion for Indie Filmmakers, Dies at 62

    Josh Welsh, president of Film Independent, died on New Year’s Eve after a five-year battle with colon cancer.   “The Golden Globe Foundation has lost a friend. Josh was a powerhouse in terms of support for independent filmmakers,” said Henry Arnaud, President of the Golden Globe Foundation. “His tireless efforts on behalf of emerging artists remain […]

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    ‘Girls’ Voices Now’ Holds Cohort Movie Premiere

    Women’s Voices Now (WVN) is a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization that uses the power of film to drive social change that advances girls’ and women’s rights globally. WVN seeks to challenge the mis- and under-representation of women by promoting films made by women, about women, for all.  With Golden Globe Foundation support, WVN envisions a […]

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    NewFilmmakers LA – CineSessions: High School Student Mentorship Program

    The NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) CineSessions program is a workforce development initiative that recruits and hosts LA based High School Students for on-set production and entertainment career mentorships. Each session hosts a small number of students (less than 12) in an effort to provide an intimate, focused environment for the students. Each student is paired with a production professional based on their career interests or […]

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    Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Mario Van Peebles and More Attend IndieCollect’s ‘RescueFest’

    “We should invest as much in saving films as we do in making films.” – Jane Fonda New York-based film preservation group IndieCollect visited Los Angeles in early December to bring twelve restored films back to the big screen. The inaugural RescueFest took place at Santa Monica’s Leammle Monica Film Center and the Academy Museum […]

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    Golden Globe Foundation-Funded Film Restorations Premiere at Academy Museum

    Two Golden Globe Foundation-funded 4K film restorations premiere at the Academy Museum this weekend! Preservation heroes IndieCollect have brought twelve brand new 4K restorations to Los Angeles in total, premiering many at the inaugural RESCUEFEST restoration festival last week. The 4K extravaganza continues this weekend with Solomon Northup’s Odyssey, Hairstory and A Question of Color […]

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    Cal State LA Receives Two Golden Globe Foundation Grants for its TV, Film, Journalism Programs

    from Cal State LA The Golden Globe Foundation is continuing its longstanding support of Cal State LA with two grants announced last week for the university’s television, film, and journalism programs. Cal State LA will receive a $30,000 grant for its Television, Film, and Media Fund and a $10,000 grant for its Diversity in Journalism Fund for the […]

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    National Hispanic Media Coalition Applauds Diversity of 2025 Golden Globe Nominations

    from National Hispanic Media Coalition The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) applauds the 2025 Golden Globe nominations for their diversity, particularly among Latine talent. We would like to especially congratulate our 2024 NHMC Impact Award honorees who have been nominated for a Golden Globe including Alien: Romulus (Cinematic and Box Office Achievement) and True Detective: Night Country (Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series, […]

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    Nominations for the 82nd Annual Golden Globes Revealed

    Nominations for the 2025 Golden Globes were unveiled live at a press conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on Monday morning: THE BRUTALIST A24 A COMPLETE UNKNOWN Searchlight Pictures CONCLAVE Focus Features DUNE: PART TWO Warner Bros. Pictures NICKEL BOYS Orion Pictures / Amazon MGM Studios SEPTEMBER 5 Paramount Pictures PAMELA ANDERSON THE […]

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    Golden Globe Foundation Awards Grants to SMC Journalism & Film Programs

    Awards Support Scholarship to Build Diverse Pipeline of Future Journalists & the Production of Capstone Short Film for College’s Award-Winning Film Program Press Release from Santa Monica College SANTA MONICA, CA—The Golden Globe Foundation (GGF, “Foundation”) has given the Santa Monica College Foundation two grant awards to support the award-winning Santa Monica College (SMC) film production and journalism programs. The Foundation provided a renewed […]

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    Golden Globe Foundation Support Celebrated at Women In Entertainment Gala

    The Golden Globe Foundation’s support of underrepresented communities was acknowledged at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women In Entertainment Gala at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Wednesday morning. The Foundation supports the Women In Entertainment Mentorship Program which was launched with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles in 2008. Approximately 30 high school juniors and […]

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    Golden Globe Foundation Announces 2024-25 Grant Award Recipients

    The Golden Globe Foundation has announced its grant award recipients for 2024-2025. These contributions support a diverse group of 83 nonprofits that provide a multitude of resources and services to programs that educate, enrich and empower the next generation of filmmakers and storytellers, colleges and universities, underserved communities, film restoration projects in the United States […]

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    RESCUE FEST To Premiere Golden Globe Foundation-Funded Film Restorations

    Event Date: December 6 - 9, 2024 - Laemmle Monica Film Center, Academy Museum

    IndieCollect’s RESCUE FEST — December 6 – 9, 2024 RESCUE FEST celebrates 10 glorious 4K restorations of indie movies that couldn’t be seen in a high-quality format until nonprofit IndieCollect transformed and revived them. Some of the negatives were physically lost or misplaced for decades. Opening night, the spotlight is on Restoration World Premiere of the […]

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