The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) is a non-profit organization, the members of which are international journalists based in Southern California. The HFPA has about 90 members who disseminate information about movies and television to the world through their various publications throughout the world. HFPA members attend more than 300 interviews and countless movie and television screenings throughout each year. The group also is famous for starting and continuing to co-produce the annual Golden Globe Awards, held in January each year, and for its philanthropic activities.
Interactive map of members
HFPA Active Members
MEMBER NAME COUNTRIES
Paoula Abou-Jaoude Brazil
Mario Amaya Colombia, Puerto Rico
Vera Anderson Mexico
Ray Arco Canada
Husam ‘Sam’ Asi United Kingdom
Rocio Ayuso (aka Maria Bernal) Spain
Ana Maria Bahiana Brazil
Gilda Baum-Lappe Mexico
Philip Berk Australia, Malaysia
Elmar Biebl Germany
Silvia Bizio Italy
Jorge Camara Dominican Republic
Luca Celada Italy
Jean-Paul Chaillet France
Rui Henriques Coimbra Portugal
Jenny Cooney-Carrillo Australia, New Zealand
Jean E. Cummings Japan
Yola Czaderska-Hayek Poland
Patricia Danaher Ireland
Ersi Danou Greece
Noël de Souza India
Gabrielle Donnelly United Kingdom
George Doss Egypt
Mahfouz Doss Egypt
Dagmar Dunlevy Canada
Armando Gallo Italy
Margaret Gardiner South Africa
Barbara Gasser Austria
Avik Gilboa Germany
Andre Guimond Canada
John Hiscock United Kingdom
Helen Hoehne Germany
Anke Hofmann Germany
Nellee A. Holmes Russia
Munawar Hosain Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom
Yoram Kahana Germany
Erkki Kanto Finland
Theo Kingma Australia, The Netherlands, Cuba
Mirai Konishi Japan
Ahmed Lateef Hong Kong
Elisa Leonelli Italy
Gabriel Gustavo Lerman Spain
Emanuel Levy United Kingdom
Lisa Lu China
Lilly Lui Hong Kong
Ramzi Malouki Algeria, Belgium, France, Morocco, Tunisia
Karen Martin Germany
Paz Mata Spain
Juliette Michaud France
Aud Berggren Morisse Norway
Yukiko Nakajima Japan
Yoko Narita Japan
Aniko Navai Hungary
Janet Nepales Philippines
Ruben Nepales Dubai, Philippines
Alexander Nevsky Russia
Yenny Nun-Katz Chile, Peru
Scott Orlin Germany
Mira Panajotovic Serbia
HJ Park South Korea
Alena Prime Tahiti
Serge Rakhlin Latvia, Russia, Ukraine
Patrick Roth Germany
Mohammed Rouda Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Frank Rousseau Belgium, France, French Antilles
Ali Sar Russia
Frances Schoenberger Germany
Elisabeth Sereda Austria
Dierk Sindermann Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Judy Solomon Israel
Lorenzo Soria Italy
Hans J. Spürkel Austria, Switzerland
Magnus Sundholm Sweden
Aida Takla-O’Reilly Dubai
Meher Tatna Malaysia, Singapore
Jack Tewksbury Argentina
Herve Tropea France
Lynn M. Tso Taiwan
Katherine Tulich Australia, Croatia
Kirpi Uimonen Ballesteros Finland
Alessandra Venezia Italy
Marlène von Arx Switzerland
Noemia Young Canada
NEW MEMBERS
Michele Manelis Australia
LIFETIME MEMBERS
Isabelle Caron
Helena Mar-Elia
Helmut Voss
The HFPA accepts new member applications during the months of February and March of each year.
Please click here for the HFPA New Member Rules and Instructions.
