President, FilmLA

At the Hollywood production facilitator, Audley has gone from famine (the pandemic lockdown) to feast with a wave of investments and construction of production facilities across the region, much of it from streamers making original TV shows. A hot category is TV reality shows, which generated 9,551 shooting days last year, more than double the annual pre-Covid average of 4,157 days. The lockdowns in 2020 cut Hollywood production in half, FilmLA estimates. FilmLA coordinates production permitting on behalf of area governments in Greater Los Angeles as a nonprofit contractor and also researches production trends. Audley was appointed in 2008.

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