Bending Spoons has reportedly laid off the entire staff behind the popular iOS and Android mobile film app Filmic Pro. That's according PetaPixel, which reported in It emerged on Friday that Filmic now has no dedicated employees and that the layoffs included the company's founder and CEO, Neill Barham.
Some former high-level employees posted about their departure. Christopher Cohen, who was the technical director of Filmic, published on November 3 who was no longer in the company. Kevin Buonagurio, the company's now former chief operating officer, responded to a LinkedIn user who had shared the PetaPixel article yesterday, saying that “going beyond” mobile filmmaking was part of “what made the filmmaking journey so satisfying for us.”
Without its staff, Filmic Pro will likely move in-house to Bending Spoons, which is already involved in mobile video with its Splice video editing app, which took over from GoPro in 2018. Maybe the company will even keep the Filmic Pro app, but it probably won't be the same app that made it so well-regarded in the first place.
