USA POST ALLIANCE
Bringing post-production jobs home
One national voice for the editors, sound teams, scoring musicians, colorists, VFX artists, and the facilities who finish America's films and television.
Who We Are
The USA Post Alliance unites the nation's regional post-production associations under one banner. Together we represent post facilities and professionals across the country, and we are proud members of the U.S. Film and Television Production Coalition.
Founding members
- Post New York Alliance (PNYA)
- California Post Alliance (CAPA)
Your alliance belongs here too! Post communities are working in every corner of the country. If your state or region has a post-production association, we'd love to have you.
Why We Joined Forces
We came together to support the Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act (MPTERA), bipartisan legislation (H.R. 10582 / S. 5552) that would create the first federal tax incentive for jobs in American film and television work.
For years, work has followed foreign incentives abroad. Over the past four years, the U.S. share of global film and television production fell from 52% to 38%. The MPTERA is designed to win that work back, and for the first time, post-production is represented into the law.
What the MPTERA means for post
A 20% base credit, up to 30% with bonuses, applies to U.S. wages, including editors, sound, and visual effects crews, on qualifying films and series.
Post can earn the credit on its own.
Even when a production shoots outside the U.S., post-production and VFX work done here qualify for their own standalone credit, when at least 75% of that work's cost is spent in the U.S. That credit is 20%, with uplifts including for independent productions or work in rural opportunity zones or disaster areas.
It stacks with state incentives.
The federal credit adds to the programs states like California and New York already offer. It doesn't replace them.
Timing.
As of now, the credit could apply to productions beginning principal photography in tax years starting in 2027.
The talent and the infrastructure are already here. With steady work, we can do more than protect these jobs: we can train and mentor the next generation of editors, sound designers, colorists and VFX artists right here in the USA.
What Can You Do
Congress hears from the people whose jobs are on the line. It takes five minutes to make sure lawmakers hear from post.
These action tools are provided by our partners at the Motion Picture Editors Guild (IATSE Local 700).
You can also take action via our Partner Organization, the Coalition of American Production (CAP).
Spread the word. Share this page with your colleagues, your crew and your clients.
- Write to your lawmakers and ask them to co-sponsor the MPTERA.
- Call your lawmakers, because a quick call to your representative and senators makes a real difference.
- Read the bill to see exactly what the MPTERA would do.
- Read MPEG's press release announcing the bill's introduction.
- Read IATSE President Matthew Loeb's letter to Congress.