Woody Woodhall, CAS is President of Allied Post Audio in Santa Monica, CA. A supporter and advocate for independent filmmaking, he’s sound-designed and mixed many independent feature films and documentaries. Recent projects include “Best Worst Movie” which screened at the 2009 SXSW Festival, the 2009 SilverDocs as well as the 2009 Hot Docs and “Team Taliban” which screened at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. For television he’s VO recorded, sound edited and mixed hundreds of episodes of programming for VH-1 (All Access SPOTLight), Discovery’s The Travel Channel (Travel Daily, Get Away USA), USA Network (Ready For the Weekend Movie, Before and Afternoon Movies), Sony’s Game Show Network (Game TV, Extreme Gong), and Comedy Central (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) to name a few. An expert in Digidesign’s ProTools, it’s assorted third-party audio software plug-ins as well as Apple’s Final Cut Pro, he is always striving to be at the leading edge of the ever-growing suite of creative audio and video computer software. He is co-founder and moderator for the Los Angeles Post Production Group, a “non-platform specific” membership group dedicated to expanding knowledge and expertise in the post finishing process. This vibrant, networking post community meets the second Wednesday of each month sharing knowledge, ideas, tips and techniques. Besides writing for his blog WoodysSoundAdvice.com he is a also contributing blogger to studiodaily.com on audio matters and he has published in Indie Slate magazine writing about “The Audio Post Process.” He guest lectures frequently on audio post and in 2009 he has presented for the Filmmakers Alliance organization, Loyola Marymount College graduate students, the reality wing of the Producers Guild of America, the Doculink organization and the Los Angeles Post Production Group.
Woody with Peabody Winner, spoken word icon Joe Frank
Some recent notable achievements include awards for Best Foreign Film as well as Best Cinematography at the European International Film Festival for “Silent Radio” a film which he produced, sound designed, and mixed, and produced and mixed the musical score. He was awarded both a 2008 Telly Award and a 2008 Communicator Award for Sound Design and Mixing for E! International’s “The New A-List Hollywood.” He was also awarded Create’s “Best of Industry Award – Audio Services” for his recording work on JibJab Media’s “Second Term.”