Hollywood Post Alliance Announces Fourth Annual HPA Awards Call for Entries

May 11, 2009

Source: Hollywood Post Alliance

The Hollywood Post Alliance has announced the Call for Entries for the Fourth Annual HPA Awards. The popular award show will take place November 12, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Launched in 2006, the HPA Awards have become a standard by which creative and technical excellence in the art, science and craft of post production is measured.

The HPA Awards invite entries in the following categories:

-Outstanding Color Grading using a digital intermediate process-Feature Film
-Outstanding Color Grading-Television
-Outstanding Color Grading-Commercial
-Outstanding Editing-Feature Film
-Outstanding Editing-Television
-Outstanding Editing-Commercial
-Outstanding Audio Post-Feature Film
-Outstanding Audio Post-Television
-Outstanding Audio Post-Commercial
-Outstanding Compositing-Feature Film
-Outstanding Compositing-Television
-Outstanding Compositing-Commercial

Entries are also being accepted for the HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation in Post Production, a new category that made its debut during the 2008 Awards. The Innovation Award recognizes companies and individuals who have demonstrated excellence in the application of innovation in a post production process or to the post production industry through the use of new approaches, tools, workflows and ideas that help enhance the post production process from a technical, creative or efficiency perspective.

The period of eligibility is September 4, 2008 to September 7, 2009 and eligible work may have debuted domestically or internationally during this period. Entrants need not be members of the Hollywood Post Alliance to submit work for consideration.

In addition to the creative award categories, the HPA Awards recognize outstanding achievements in post-production by individuals, companies and in engineering. The revered Engineering Excellence Award is bestowed upon an individual, company or process that advances post production technology. The Charles S. Swartz Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Post Production is awarded to a person, group, company or technology that has made a significant artistic, technological, business or educational impact on Post Production and the Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a post production professional for his or her service and commitment to the field of Post Production.

Nominees and winners are selected by judging panels that are drawn from professionals in production and post-production. Entries for the Engineering Excellence Award will be invited to present to engineering award judges at a special HPA event that will be open to the post community.

- Submissions for the creative categories and for the HPA Judges Creativity Award will be accepted May 1, 2009 through July 31, 2009.
- Submissions for the Engineering Excellence Award will be accepted May 1, 2009 through July 15, 2009.
- Early Bird Entry (reduced fee) applies until July 3rd, 2009.

A Call for Judges will be announced soon for late summer judging sessions. Nominees will be announced in the fall.

Entry Form: click here

Entry Pricing: click here

Rules and Procedures: click here

More information: info@hpaawards.net or
+1 213 614 0860, or www.hpaawards.net

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