{"id":1998142,"date":"2025-09-05T01:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1998142"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:21:23","slug":"harold-matzner-philanthropist-and-chairman-of-palm-springs-international-film-festival-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/harold-matzner-philanthropist-and-chairman-of-palm-springs-international-film-festival-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Harold Matzner, Philanthropist and Chairman of Palm Springs International Film Festival, Dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Harold Matzner<\/a>, the philanthropist and businessman who served as chairman of the Palm Springs International Film Festival for more than two decades, died Sept. 4 in Palm Springs after a brief illness. He was 88.<\/p>\n

Over nearly four decades in the desert, Matzner donated more than $85 million to local nonprofits and helped the festival become an important stop on the Hollywood awards circuit.<\/p>\n

Born in Newark, N.J., Matzner grew up during the Depression and worked briefly in sports journalism before entering the marketing business. He founded direct-mail advertising firm Cba Industries, which continues to deliver millions of advertising circulars weekly, and remained CEO into his 80s.<\/p>\n

In 1999, Matzner stepped in to rescue the struggling Palm Springs International Film Festival. As chairman, he donated more than $12 million of his own money, built the Palm Springs International Film Awards into a popular stop on the awards calendar and helped welcome stars including Meryl Streep<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Harold Matzner, the philanthropist and businessman who served as chairman of the Palm Springs International Film Festival for more than two decades, died Sept. 4 in Palm Springs after a brief illness. He was 88. Over nearly four decades in the desert, Matzner donated more than $85 million to local nonprofits and helped the festival […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1998143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-1998142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Harold-Matzner-Philanthropist-and-Chairman-of-Palm-Springs-International-Film.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}