Why Now is the Perfect Time to Join HPA

By Joyce JC Cataldo The media and entertainment industry is evolving faster than ever. Technology is shifting the way we create, distribute, and experience c...

In Conversation: Barbara Ford Grant

Today's tentpole VFX pipelines are labor-intensive, time-consuming and expensive, while AI promises to produce the same but much cheaper and quicker with a ...

Help Grow the California Production Coalition

The California Production Coalition (CPC) is bringing together businesses and organizations from across the entertainment industry to protect and strengthen fil...

HPA Award Winner: Damian McDonnell finishing colourist on Time Bandits

Creating not just a whole new fantasy adventure world but one fantasy adventure world per episode was the herculean task set by Taika Waititi, Iain Morris and J...

HPA Tech Retreat 2025: The Indispensable Gathering Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary with a Thought-Provoking Conference

The 30th anniversary of the HPA Tech Retreat may have just concluded, but the co...

HPA Unveils the 2025 Class of Young Entertainment Professionals (YEP)

Since its inception by the Women in Post committee in 2016, the YEP program has spotlighted rising talent in media and entertainment. Each year, a select group ...

HPA Tech Retreat Announces: Behind the Scenes of MrBeast, A Conversation

As it heads to its estimable 30th anniversary, the HPA Tech Retreat continues to add one-of-a-kind programming to its schedule. The HPA Tech Retreat committee h...

HPA Tech Retreat Turns 30: What to Expect at This Year's Event

The countdown to the 30th anniversary of the HPA Tech Retreat is on. In just a few weeks, from February 16-20, 2025, the media and entertainment industry's ...

All Hands Lifting Together

As we go to press on this newsletter, two weeks have passed since Los Angeles experienced one of the worst natural disasters in its history-impacting lives an...

HPA Tech Retreat Supersession: The Evolving Human Role in AI-Driven Production and Post-Production

The HPA Tech Retreat Supersession committee has announced that the highly antici...

HPA Award Delivered To New Zealand!

HPA Award Committee co-founder Carolyn Giardina was in New Zealand recently and had the opportunity present the Outstanding Visual Effects - Live Action Feature...

2025 HPA Tech Retreat Reveals Additional Unmissable Programming and Activities

On its 30th anniversary this year, one constant of the HPA Tech Retreat is its unique and consistently engaging programming that goes hand in hand with unparall...

Seth Hallen Looks Back Over Nine Years As HPA President And Toward The Organization's Bright Future

Seth Hallen had been on the board for seven years before being named president i...

HPA Tech Retreat 2025 Unveils Additional Program And Activities Schedule

The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) has released additional programming details for the highly anticipated 2025 HPA Tech Retreat in Rancho Mirage, Cali...

HPA Tech Retreat 2025 Releases First Program Details for the 30th Anniversary of the Influential Event

The highly-anticipated 2025 Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Tech Retrea...

Celebrating The Best Of The Best

The HPA Awards exist to honor and recognize the accomplishments of the talented HPA community and to support their efforts with increased awareness and celebrat...

Meet Joyce JC' Cataldo, HPA's Head of Development and Strategy

Joyce JC Cataldo joined the HPA team as a full-time member in 2020, following a successful collaborative stint at SMPTE - HPA that began in 2017. From the ou...

Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Elevates Joyce Cataldo to Head of Development and Strategy

The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) has announced that Joyce JC Catal...

HPA Awards Unveil 2024 Creative Category Winners

The HPA Awards honored trailblazing talent in the post production industry, celebrating standout achievements in color grading, sound, editing, restoration, and...

Shaping the Future of Media and Entertainment, The Young Entertainment Professionals

In an industry that thrives on creativity, technology, and collaboration, emergi...

The Everlasting Allure of Horror

Byline: E.L. Hall It's that time of year and Rotten Tomatoes has just posted its 10 Scariest Horror Films list. Have any favorites or notice any omissions?...

American Cinema Editors (ACE) To Honor Filmmaker Jon M. Chu With The ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker Of The Year Award

Recognizing outstanding editing in film and television, the 75th Annual ACE Edd...

Hollywood Professional Association Unveils 2024 HPA Awards Creative Category Nominees

The HPA Awards Committee today announced the nominees for the Creative Categorie...

HPA Announces Kari Grubin as Incoming President, Marking a Historic Milestone

The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) has announced that Kari Grubin will take over as president on January 1, 2025. Grubin will be the first woman to le...

HPA Goes to IBC 2024

IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) is one of the world's leading events for the media, entertainment, and technology sectors, bringing together pro...

Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Names Kari Grubin President-Elect, Seth Hallen to Pass the Torch of Leadership in January 2025

The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Board of Directors has announced th...

FotoKem Set to Receive the Charles S. Swartz Award at HPA Awards

As previously announced, FotoKem is set to receive the prestigious Charles S. Swartz Award from the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) this year at the an...

Film Pioneer Alice Guy-Blach Championed at the Olympics

By Adrian Pennington During the spectacular Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris, before the performances of Celine Dion and after Lady Gaga, ten sup...

Perifery Unveils Fully Integrated AI-Enabled Solution at IBC2024

Perifery , a division of DataCore, has today announced the launch of its comprehensive workflow solution that seamlessly integrates storage, asset management, a...

HPA Announces 2024 Engineering Excellence Award Recipients

The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Awards committee has announced this year's recipients of the coveted HPA Award for Engineering Excellence. The ...

HPA AWARDS COMMITTEE HONORS FOTOKEM WITH THE CHARLES S. SWARTZ AWARD

The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Awards Committee has announced that FotoKem will receive HPA's prized Charles S. Swartz Award at the 19th HPA A...

Blair Wallace Grades Award-Winning Chimp Empire for James Reed and Netflix

The traditional approach to filming chimpanzees in the rainforest is to use a relatively large camera and a very long lens, but Oscar-winning director James Ree...

AI: A Call to Arms to Elevate Ourselves

By Adrian Pennington The potency of AI has swept our industry into a riptide of uncertainty. Instead of letting inevitable change wash over us, we have the cha...

Volunteers are Everything: Sarah McGrail on the Importance of Community in Visual Effects

By Alyssa Heater Sarah McGrail is a powerhouse in visual effects, with over twe...

HPA Awards Open Call for Submissions in Creative Categories

The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) and the HPA Awards Committee are excited to announce that submissions for the 2024 HPA Awards are now open. Entries...

AND THE WINNER IS TRIBUTE TO POST HPA's HOMAGE TO THE INDUSTRY HONORED WITH 4 TELLY AWARDS

As the 2023 HPA Awards were taking shape last year, in the aftermath of the pand...

Time to Get Your Submissions Ready: HPA Awards Creative Categories Open June 3!

By HPA Staff The call for submissions for the HPA Engineering Excellence Awards is already open, and closes soon on June 14; but the submission period for crea...

Great Things Happen After Dark

By Christine Purse One of the most compelling discussions at the 2024 HPA Tech Retreat happened off stage with no audience present. After hours, while the room...

QTAKE Pioneers Live 3D Stream to Apple Vision Pro

QTAKE, the leading video assist and on-set collaboration software trusted by professional filmmakers worldwide, launched a new cutting-edge feature at NAB 2024....

LA County Opens Entertainment Business Interruption Fund Grant Program for Small Business, LAEDC Offers Updates

In HPA's ongoing focus on providing input and insight from city and county g...

Trailblazing AI Storytelling by Empowering Storytellers: Curious Refuge

HPA Newsline had the opportunity to speak with Caleb and Shelby Ward, founders of Curious Refuge. Caleb and Shelby were participants in the 2024 HPA Tech Retrea...

Calling All Visionaries: Enter the 2024 HPA Engineering Excellence Awards

Submissions for the 2024 HPA Engineering Excellence Awards are now being accepted. This renowned accolade recognizes and celebrates innovation and outstanding t...

QTAKE Introduces Cutting-Edge Innovations for Filmmakers.

QTAKE, the leading video assist software trusted by professional filmmakers worldwide, is proud to announce the release of its latest software update, introduci...

Talking Generative AI with Corridor Digital's Niko Pueringer

By: Alyssa Heater The 2024 HPA Tech Retreat, now in its 29th year, showcased a program chock full of presentations, panels, and roundtables spanning a wealth o...

The HPA Awards Engineering Excellence Awards: Grab the Brass Ring

Launched in 2006, the HPA Awards were designed to honor the creative and technical genius that power our industry. At that time, the behind-the-scenes talent th...

SMPTE and the IMF User Group Have Joined Forces

SMPTE , the home of media professionals, technologists, and engineers, has joined forces with the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) User Group (UG), a worldwide...

Colorfront Unveiled New SDR to Dolby Vision HDR Conversion Capability at the 2024 HPA Retreat; Release Enthusiastically Received by Attendees

Colorfront (colorfront.com), the multi-award-winning pioneer in high-performance...

Unbreaking an Industry Begins with Honest Conversations and Better Collaboration

The industry is at breaking point in the midst of seismic change but it can survive if stakeholders act collectively starting now, urged Jeff Rosica, Presiden...

HPA President Seth Hallen Entreats Media Professionals to Lead During Era of Transformative Change

This year, I believe we are starting a new chapter, actually an entirely new pla...

At HPA's Iconic Tech Retreat, President Seth Hallen Entreats Media Professionals to Lead During Era of Transformative Change and Technological Advancement