Biography

Member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild since 1990. Serving on the MPEG Board of Directors since 1997. Serves on several Committees for the Guild membership. In 2007 started an archive for MPEG, saving vintage editing tools, collecting photographs from members and created the Legacy Collection. This is a collection of video taped interviews with members telling their story of life in the industry. All original media and Digital Files are kept at the AMPAS Archive Vaults.

Sharon is a founding member of MIC'D Alliance (Moving Image Craft Documentation Alliance). Archivists or Board Member Representatives from 11 Industry organizations came together with a common goal of preserving Oral Histories. Serving as a Co-Vice Chair for the first term of the organization. Officers spoke at the OAH convention in Long Beach 2016.

Affiliated with American Cinema Editors since 2004, Sharon is an Associate Member. She is also a frequent volunteer with MPTF.

Sharon worked as a production sound intern on her first film ("Health", Directed by Robert Altman) while still in school. She received class credit through a school program called Career Based Education. Too young to drive, her mother would pick her up at school and drive her to the set on St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.

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Sharon Smith Holley's passion project of having a physical space for the Motion Picture Editors Guild Archives became a reality after 10 years with the opening of the Archives' museum space in October 2017.

Because the Motion Picture Academy's Library had limited resources of photos of members at work in editing rooms and mixing stages etc, Sharon requested to start a photo archive at the Guild's Board of Directors meeting in 2007. The Board voted to establish the Archive and History Committee and Sharon was appointed as chair. The approval was for not just photos but also approval to create an oral history project. This was an important opportunity of giving tribute to the senior Guild members, encompassing all post-production crafts. Soon after Sharon started building a physical archive of vintage film equipment to be included with the photo archive, and the Legacy Collection, (the name penned by Holley to the visual oral histories of Guild members interviewed about their life working in the industry.)

As of 2017, Sharon has produced over 170 oral histories. Since 2014 all original tapes and digital files from the Interviews have been transferred to the AMPAS Archive Vaults for safe keeping. "As technology changes to the new media formats, the Academy is best equipped to transfer the Guild's Legacy Collection, so that the interviews can be safely and easily accessible in the future. More about this topic can be read at: The Splice of Life Editors Guild Launches Archive of Post-Production History CINEMONTAGE FEATURE February 16, 2018 Featured Stories.

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2019, joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Quickly became involved in their Golden Mentor program, mentoring Students studying Archiving. Also voted in her first Student Academy Awards in the fall of 2019.

In 2020, Sharon was installed as Secretary of MPEG Board of Directors. She was honored with being nominated by Diane Adler who retired after 28 years serving as Secretary and 36 years on the Board of Directors decided. Elections were held Nov/Dec 2019.

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