News Summary

• Los Angeles elected officials spent several hours on Wednesday grilling city leaders on ways to streamline the region’s film and television production processes.
• The answer largely came down to more funding.
• “I have approached this work with a simple principle: when a production wants to film in Los Angeles, we work with urgency to find a path to a solution and make that process as easy as possible,” chief film liaison Steve Kang said to the council members before providing an update on his work over the past year.