Bending Spoons confirmed it laid off all 22 of Filmic’s original staff
Bending Spoons has laid off all of the staff behind mobile filmmaking app Filmic Pro, including Filmic CEO Neill Barham. Christy Keenan, a spokesperson for Bending Spoons, confirmed the layoffs in an email to The Verge, saying that “all 22 members of the original Filmic team” were laid off in November and Filmic “has now been fully integrated into the Bending Spoons platform.” PetaPixel first reported the layoffs on Friday.
Keenan added that because the “dedicated team” at the company worked with Filmic’s original crew, it “possesses the necessary knowledge to ensure a seamless user experience.” The company was already involved in mobile video with its Splice video editing app, which it took over from GoPro in 2018.
Some former high-level employees posted about their departure. Christopher Cohen, who was Filmic’s technical chief officer, posted on November 3rd that he was no longer with the company. Kevin Buonagurio, the company’s now-former chief operating officer, replied to a LinkedIn user who’d shared the PetaPixel story yesterday, saying that “pushing the envelope” of mobile filmmaking was part of “what made the Filmic journey so fulfilling for us.”
Update December 4th, 2023, 9:57AM ET: Added confirmation from Bending Spoons spokesperson Christy Keenan.
Bending Spoons has laid off all of the staff behind mobile filmmaking app Filmic Pro, including Filmic CEO Neill Barham. Christy Keenan, a spokesperson for Bending Spoons, confirmed the layoffs in an email to The Verge, saying that “all 22 members of the original Filmic team” were laid off in…
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