Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, aware of the city’s deepening production crisis — now a flashpoint in her reelection bid — appointed a filming czar to act as a liaison between entertainment productions and city departments. Steve Kang, a seasoned community affairs executive, started last year, running the Board of Public Works. He spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about the on-a-deadline diplomacy of collaborating with producers who are burning budget by the minute, fellow municipal bureaucrats with their own fiefdoms and other stakeholders, from NIMBY residents to small-business owners.
Define your role, as it relates to the industry.
The mayor has really empowered me to cut through the bureaucracy to resolve any permitting or film-related issues in the entire city of L.A. That has been an ask of the industry for a very long time — that she appoint a high-level appointee in the City that can go
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