HPA Awards announce Engineering Excellence Awards presentations, extended deadline

Entrants for the Hollywood Post Alliance Engineering Excellence Award will present their submissions on Saturday, October 7, at the Technicolor ITC Theatre in Burbank. The Engineering Excellence Award showcases innovations and outstanding contributions in the postproduction process. The award will be presented on the evening of November 1 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

The HPA Awards recognize the outstanding contributions of postproduction professionals working behind the scenes in a number of categories, including color grading, audio, visual effects compositing, and editorial for motion pictures, television, and commercials. There are two special awards, the Engineering Excellence Award and the Career Achievement Award. The entry deadline for all submissions has been extended until September 22.

Phil Mendelson, subcommittee chair of the Engineering Excellence Award, says, “The postproduction process depends on the creative application of engineering thought. We have seen a number of exciting submissions come in so far. We believe this is the first year of an award that will become a sought-after accolade by the best innovators and technologists. The HPA Awards Committee invites people involved in the post industry to attend this event."

The Engineering Excellence Award is intended to showcase and reward inventers, manufacturers, vendors and/or peer postproduction companies for their outstanding product or technology application offerings. Valid offerings may include products or processes, but must represent a step forward for its industry beneficiaries.

A key requirement for being considered in the category is that the submission must have been introduced and be commercially available to the market. Submission can consist of hardware, software, a combination of the two and/or a technological development or a postproduction process. Mendelson continued, “October 7 will be a thought-provoking day as new technologies are revealed.”

For Further Information about the HPA Awards, visit www.hpaawards.net or call (818) 840-7953.