HPA AWARDS UNVEIL 2021 CREATIVE CATEGORY NOMINATIONS

The HPA Awards Committee today announced nominees for the 2021 HPA Awards creative categories. The HPA Awards, long seen as a standard bearer for creative accom...

Latest Spot for Chris Hemsworth's Centr Fitness App Shot Using Blackmagic Design URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2

Blackmagic Design has announced the new promotional spot for Chris Hemsworth'...

Convergent Expands its Resources for Cloud and Application Security

Convergent has announced the expansion of its resources for cloud and application security with the appointment of Nipun Mehta, who joined the company this mont...

RE-RECORDING MIXER PAUL MASSEY CAS TO BE HONORED WITH CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

21 September. 2021, LOS ANGELES Cinema Audio Society President Karol Urban anno...

American Cinema Editors Announces Details for 72nd Annual ACE Eddie Awards

To be eligible to compete television entries must have aired between January 1 December 31, 2021 and film entries between March 1 December 31, 2021 Submis...

ICG Releases Latest Deep Dive

FOX TV's Fantasy Island reboot is the focus of ICG Magazine's seventh Deep Dive online discussion. Panelists included executive producer Anne Clemen...

DaVinci Resolve Studio and Fairlight Desktop Console Used for Audio Post on Magnificent Madness TV Series

Blackmagic Design has announced that DaVinci Resolve Studio's Fairlight audi...

Johannes Skoog of TV 2 Denmark named first Viz Artist in Residence

Vizrt, the leading provider of software-defined visual storytelling for media content creators, announced designer Johannes Skoog as the winner of the first eve...

Vizrt XR Set now offers native, full-fledged Unreal Engine with Viz Engine

Vizrt , the world's leading provider of software-defined visual storytelling solutions for media content creators, today announced a new release of its mark...

Foundry celebrates 25 Years at Foundry Live in September

Foundry, the leading developer of creative software for the Media and Entertainment, and Digital Design industries celebrated its 25-year milestone with the ret...

Inside the Projection Booth at the Hollywood Legion Theater

The Egyptian Revival style building on the west side of Highland has been a Hollywood landmark since it opened July 4, 1929, a fitting date for the building whi...

Welcome to Chechnya Team Garners HPA Judges Award for Creativity & Innovation

The HPA Awards Committee has announced that director David France and visual effects supervisor Ryan Laney will receive the organization's prestigious Judge...

David France, Ryan Laney Will Receive HPA Judges Award for Creativity & Innovation for Welcome to Chechnya

The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Awards Committee has announced that...

DEG Presents Hedy Lamarr Award to Dolby Laboratories' Chief Scientist Poppy Crum

DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group has named Poppy Crum, Chief Scientist at Do...

Adobe to Acquire Frame.io

Adobe has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Frame.io, a leading cloud-based video collaboration platform. With over a million user...

Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 17.3

Blackmagic Design has announced DaVinci Resolve 17.3 which adds support for a completely new processing engine that transforms the speed of DaVinci Resolve to w...

National Geographic's Race to the Center of the Earth Shoots with URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2

Blackmagic Design has announced that season one of National Geographic's adv...

2021 HPA Tech Retreat Goes Virtual with Help from Blackmagic Design

For more than 25 years, the Hollywood Professional Association's (HPA) Tech Retreat has gathered the most innovative and tech-savvy minds to help pave the w...

Tangent Leverages Innovations in Remote Collaboration

By Alec Rosenthal Tangent is an Australian, HPA-presented short film written and directed by Ruby Bell, written and produced by Gabriella Landay, and produce...

Engineering Excellence Recipients Announced for 2021 HPA Awards

The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Awards Committee has announced the winners of the 2021 HPA Awards for Engineering Excellence. The HPA Awards, incl...

OWNZONES Appoints Arjun Ramamurthy as Chief Technology Officer

OWNZONES Entertainment Technologies, the leading cloud-based video supply chain company, has announced in a key hire that experienced industry leader and visio...

Convergent Return of On-Site TPN Security Assessments

Convergent Risks has announced the start of a scheduled return to On-Site' TPN and studio initiated site security assessments for media and entertainment v...

Porter Robinson's Secret Sky VR Concert Shot with Blackmagic Design Cameras

Blackmagic Design has announced that Porter Robinson's Secret Sky concert was shot using Blackmagic Design's Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro, Pocket Cinem...

AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS (ACE) TO PRESENT THE 72ND ANNUAL ACE EDDIE AWARDS IN A LIVE CEREMONY AT THE BRAND-NEW ACADEMY MUSEUM ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2022

VES Launches Webinar Series to Destigmatize Mental Health Care

The Visual Effects Society and the Quebec Film and Television Council (QFTC) launched Reignite Yourself - Instruments to Face Daily Life, a five-part webinar se...

ASC Clubhouse Conversations Series Wins Telly Award

The ASC's popular Clubhouse Conversations video series has been recognized with a Bronze Telly Award in the Online Series: Education and Discovery category....

HPA: The View From Midway Through 2021

By Debra Kaufman In 2020, HPA and the industry it represents adapted to the crisis of an unprecedented global pandemic. Now, halfway through 2021, the media an...

2021 HPA AWARDS GALA SET FOR NOVEMBER 18th at ICONIC HOLLYWOOD LEGION THEATER

The 2021 Hollywood Professional Association (HPA ) Awards, the pre-eminent celebration of creative and technical accomplishments of the media and entertainment ...

IN2CORE Completes Cloud & App Security Assessment of QTAKE Cloud with Convergent

IN2CORE and Convergent announced the completion of a cloud and application security assessment for the QTAKE Cloud video collaboration application used by thous...

American Society of Cinematographers Re-elects President Stephen Lighthill

The Board of Governors of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has voted on the organization's 2021-2022 officers and Stephen Lighthill has been r...

AJA Delivers PAK Dock Pro

AJA Video Systems rolled out the new compact PAK Dock Pro media reader featuring ubiquitous USB-C connectivity. With no external power supply required, the comp...

AJA Releases Mini-Config v2.26.2

AJA Video Systems has released Mini-Config v2.26.2, a free software update that introduces a host of new features for select AJA 12G-SDI, 4K/UltraHD and other M...

NBC Olympics Selects Intelligent File Transfer Provider for its Production of Olympic Games in Tokyo

NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Signiant to provi...

XR Tales Relies on Ultimatte 12 and Unreal Engine for Virtual Production

Blackmagic Design has announced that Mexican immersive technology company XR Tales has incorporated its Ultimatte 12 compositing processor for virtual productio...

CBS Series All Rise Shoots Season 2 With Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K

Blackmagic Design has announced that season 2 of CBS' popular legal drama All Rise was shot using multiple Pocket Cinema Camera 6Ks to maintain safe proto...

SHADOW goes to Cannes

By Alec Rosenthal SHADOW, a Mongolian animated short film directed by Azzaya Munkhbat and produced by Bayra Bela (Bayartsetseg Altangerel), Mandakh Gantugs, ...

Let's get this party started! The HPA Awards are coming!

By Christine Purse, HPA Awards Committee Chair The HPA staff, Board, and Awards committee have been hard at work planning in detail and with great excitement...

HPA Awards Open Creative Categories Call for Entries

The 2021 Hollywood Professional Association (HPA ) Awards call for entries for creative categories has opened. For over fifteen years, the HPA Awards have recog...

New KIA Xceed Commercial Kicks into Gear with the URSA Mini Pro 12K

Blackmagic Design has announced that freystil, a Salzburg based content production agency, has shot the latest advertising campaign for Kia Motors Austria using...

Xytech Systems Names Rob Evans & Linda Staudenmaier to Key Roles

Xytech, the leader in facility management software for the broadcast and media industries, has announced the appointments of Rob Evans to the role of Product Ma...

Dan Marshall Joins Signiant to Lead Global Sales

Dan Marshall has been appointed to the role of Chief Revenue Officer at Signiant. Reporting directly to CEO Margaret Craig, Marshall is now responsible for driv...

UpHill Cinema Uses URSA Mini Pro 12K to Shoot Two US Commercials and Kenyan Documentary Film

Blackmagic Design has announced Uphill Cinema used URSA Mini Pro 12K to shoot co...

Production Sound Webinar from SoundGirls

Join SoundGirls for a webinar on production sound! This is your opportunity to ask questions about film & TV production sound and get them answered with this ex...

Colorist lodie Ichter Joins Picture Shop

Colorist lodie Ichter has joined the roster at Picture Shop, a Streamland Media company providing award-winning post production services. Ichter, who recently ...

HPA ALL IN Program Details Are Here! HPA ALL Initiative Moves into Action

HPA ALL is the HPA initiative driving the organization's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Next week, in a highly informative and event, HPA ALL IN a...

Toward Understanding Humans@Work: How Emotion and Motivation Shape Leadership Styles

By Debra Kaufman If you've ever considered where leadership styles come fro...

Hollywood Professional Association Announces ALL IN Program Details

HPA today announced program details for ALL IN, a free virtual event taking place May 24-27. Presented by HPA ALL, the foundational program driving HPA-led acti...

HPA AWARDS OPEN HPA ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

HPA Awards today announced that the call for submissions for the HPA Engineering Excellence Award is open. Entries will be accepted until June 18, 2021. Celebra...

Mank Wins Feature Award from American Society of Cinematographers

The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) presented its annual awards during a virtual ceremony on April 18, with Erik Messerschmidt, ASC claiming the top ...

IBC 2021 Set to Re-energise the Media, Entertainment and Technology Industry

Unveils plans for a live event in Amsterdam in September 2021, with fall-back option of December 2021 Creates hybrid event strategy to widen the reach of the...