Hollywood Post Alliance
The Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA), is a Southern California based trade association founded in 2002 by seasoned professionals and studio executives from major post facilities and manufacturers with a mission to serve the post production community. HPA produces educational conferences and seminars, provides networking opportunities for its members, acts as a "larger voice" for the industry on common issues and topics, and provides a platform for other industry-related functions.
Membership is open to any individual or organization with interest in the subject matter.
HPA's major activities include the annual HPA Tech Retreat and HPA Awards, SCRG (Sales Career Resource Group) Luncheons every two months, several networking events throughout the year, the J. Michael Brinkman Scholarship Fund, and recently the HPA Post Pit with the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) at the NAB Show. The latest addition to HPA is the Women in Post group (WiP), which began in 2013 and has partnered with SMPTE.
The HPA Tech Retreat is an annual informal gathering held in the Palm Springs area. Attended by the top industry-engineering, technical, and creative talent, as well as strategic business leaders focused on technology, from all aspects of digital-cinema, post-production, film, television, video, and related technologies for the exchange of information.
The HPA presents awards to individuals and organizations to recognize the achievement of post production talent.
The Engineering Excellence Award is specifically intended to acknowledge product or technology application offerings that help move the post production industry forward. Previous winners include MTI Film, Cine-Tal, Arnold + Richter Cine Technik (ARRI), Dolby, IBM, Lightcraft, as well as two time winners, Sony, Digital Vision, FastSoft, Panasonic, S.Two Corporation, Signiant, DVS Digital Video Systems, and Quantel, who is the only three time winner to date.
This award is in recognition of notable individuals or groups who's creative or technical innovation may not fit into another category or meet their eligibility requirements. Winners could include unique movies or other types of media content, workflows, hardware or software or other achievements that help advance post production.
The Charles S. Swartz Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Post Production is an award for an individual, group, company or technology that has made a major artistic, technological, business or educational impact on Post Production. The award is in honor of Charles S. Swartz, who died in 2007 and was a well respected figure in the post production industry. The Charles S. Swartz Award recognizes a wide range of contributions that have advanced and/or provided some unique purpose to the field of Post Production with the first winner announced during the 3rd annual HPA Awards in 2008.
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