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Theo Kingma Dies: Former HFPA President Was 58
Theo Kingma, the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association from 2013 to 2015, died March 21 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 58.
He began the Association’s participation at Comic-Con in San Diego, introduced roundtable interviews with a broad range of non-entertainment subjects such as Lech Walesa, Julian Assange and Niki Lauda, and supported HFPA member attendance at set visits and long lead press conferences. During the Globes broadcast in 2015, just days after the terrorist attack at the Charlie Hebdo publication offices in Paris, Kingma spoke out in support of freedom of speech and the protection of journalism: “The freedom of artistic expression… is a beacon across the globe… We stand united everywhere from North Korea to Paris,” he said. Since 2017, Kingma has served as CEO of Film Expo Group, which organizes ShowEast in Miami, CineEurope in Barcelona, and CineAsia in Bangkok.
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