Woody Woodhall, CAS

CONTACT:  WOODY [at] AlliedPost [dot] com

Woodhall IMDB

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AUDIO POST PRODUCTION

Woody Woodhall, CAS is Studio Principal of Allied Post Audio in Santa Monica, CA and is an award winning supervising sound editor, sound designer and re-recording mixer. He has sound supervised and mixed feature films and documentaries and for television he’s recorded VO’s, sound edited and mixed hundreds of episodes of programming that has been broadcast or streamed on Netflix, Amazon Studios, YouTube Red, Vice, MTV, The CW, Comedy Central, Food Network, Freeform, Nat Geo, History, USA Network and VH-1 to name a few.

Recent television sound editorial and mixing includes the CNN Film presentation, “No Ordinary Life“, as well as the first season of the comedy seriesSexpectations. Recent feature film sound editorial and mixing includes the documentary film “Plan C“, about the organization that helps women find medical abortion pills, as well as the family friendly, female focused, feature film, “Identity Crisis“.

FILMMAKER

A filmmaker as well as a sound professional, he is a producer of the acclaimed feature length documentary “Joe Frank – Somewhere Out There” as well as the film “Silent Radio” which won Best Foreign Film – USA at the European Independent Film Festival. He has directed and produced the award winning pilot, Contact High”, a project that he also wrote. Other directing projects include “Protocol”, an award winning science fiction short film and a short documentary which he also edited, “Why Do I Exist?”, that won best picture editing in the experimental category at the 2009 Los Angeles Reel Film Festival. 

EDUCATOR

Author of the college textbook, Audio Production and Post Production, Woody’s book is used at universities across the world. He teaches his class “Post Production Sound for Film and TV” at UCLA Extension. He is a contributing blogger to ProVideo Coalition on audio matters under his channel Sound For Picture. As a guest lecturer on audio post practices and techniques he has presented for the Producers Guild of America (PGA), Filmmakers Alliance, Savannah College of Art and Design, Loyola Marymount College (LMU), Musicians Institute, and Doculink.

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS

Woody also heads the Los Angeles Post Production Group (LAPPG), now in its 15th year with over 200 events produced, a thriving YouTube community, and a membership of over 5,000, where he shares his filmmaking expertise alongside other working professionals and industry leaders on a monthly basis for the LA post production community.

A member of IATSE Local 700, re-recording mixer member of the Cinema Audio Society, (CAS) and a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), Woody is dedicated to using all of his resources to advocate for post-production and particularly supporting the sound industry, the artists who work in it, and the knowledge that can be shared with others.

Woody with Joe Frank

Woody with Peabody Winner, spoken word icon Joe Frank

SOUND FOR AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY PROJECTS

A longtime supporter and advocate for independent filmmaking projects and documentaries, many of the projects that Woody has designed and mixed sound for are award winners as well:

Plan C– Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer

From the Hood to the Holler– Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer

Bella– Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer

Moby Doc– Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer

No Ordinary Life – Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer

Welcome To Pine Lake – Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer

American Relapse – Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer *Winner – Best Documentary – Rhode Island International Film Festival

Baby Brother – Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer – *Premiered at Sundance Film Festival, NY Times Featured Documentary

After Auschwitz – Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer – -*Winner – Best Documentary – Mammoth Film Festival Winner – Best Documentary – Long Beach International Film Festival, Winner – Best Documentary – Los Angeles Women’s Film Festival

Best Worst Movie – Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer –  Winner – Audience Award – Hot Docs, Roger Ebert’s Top 10 List for Documentaries 2010

The Deported– Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer –  YouTube Red, YouTube Studios *Winner 2019 Flickers’ International Humanitarian Award

11/8/16 – Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer – *Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards 2017

Hitchhiking to the Edge of Sanity – Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer-  Emmy Award Winner

A Life Ascending – Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer – *Winner – Best Documentary – DocuWest International Film Festival

Next Year Country – Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer – *Winner – Best Documentary – DocuWest International Film Festival