Website www.arcadeedit.com | Founded 2008 | |
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Industry Post Production, Broadcast media Key people Damian Stevens, Kim Bica, Geoff Hounsell, Paul Martinez Headquarters Los Angeles, California, United States Founders Paul Martinez, Kim Bica, Geoff Hounsell, Damian Stevens | ||
Arcade Edit is a film and television editorial house established in 2008 by Kim Bica, Geoff Hounsell, Paul Martinez and Damian Stevens. Alongside Arcade, Airship (which relaunched as Timber in 2014) specializes in online, graphics, design and visual effects.
Production
Arcade Edit's credits include commercials and music videos. Kim Bica has cut spots for Errol Morris, Joe Pytka and Tarsem and worked on Martin Scorsese's American Express "Members Project" campaign. In 1996, Kim Bica received an Emmy award for her work on ESPN's NCAA basketball campaign featuring Robert Goulet. Kim recently won an AICE award for NBA "WIn". Paul Martinez has worked on various Cannes Gold Lion winning projects such as Toyota "Girlfriends" and Altoids' campaign "Altodia." Geoff Hounsell cut Goodby's Cannes-winning split-screen campaign for the NBA, a Cannes Silver Lion win for the "Environmental Defense Fund: Polar Bears", along with the video for The White Stripes' "The Hardest Button to Button." Arcade's roster also includes editor Christjan Jordan (formerly of Cosmo Street). Christjan won a Cannes Grand Prix Cyber Lion for his work on VW "GTI Configurator."
Arcade also does short films and music videos. Krumped (directed by David LaChapelle) won a Sundance Short Filmmaking Award, I Want to be a Pilot (directed by Diego Quemada-Diez) won over 30 awards globally including Audience Award for Best Short at the Los Angeles Film Festival and Everything In This Country Must (directed by Gary McKendry) was nominated for an Academy Award in 2004.
We Can't Stop (Miley Cyrus) edited by Paul Martinez and Nick Rondeau, was nominated for an MTV VMA Award for editing. Martinez also edited Can't Stop the Feeling (Justin Timberlake), Shake it Off (Taylor Swift) - nominated for a best music video AICE Award, and Blurred Lines (Robin Thicke) - nominated for MTV VMA Video of the Year; while Nick Rondeau edited Let Me Love You (Ariana Grande) and Greg Scrunton edited Chainsaw (Nick Jonas).