Bondit Finds Synergies and Revenue with Buffalo8 Post Production
variety.comTodd Longwell By the mid-2010s, BondIt Media Capital was thriving, funding 50 projects a year, as well as producing its own slate through its Buffalo8 division.
But its post-production pipeline was a chaotic tangle, employing an uncoordinated mix of talent working at facilities spread across the map.
Simply put, “it was unsustainable,” says BondIt CEO and co-founder Matthew Helderman. Then, in 2017, an opportunity presented itself: a post-production house was exiting its lease on a 10,000-square-foot space in Hollywood, leaving both the building and an impressive amount of equipment and personnel up for grabs.
Helderman and BondIt COO and co-founder Luke Taylor stepped in and Buffalo8 Post Production was born. The facility has full picture and sound teams on staff, including picture editors, colorists and visual effects artists and supervisors, ADR artists, sound designers, editors and mixers. “We built it for people who love movies, who want to find safe harbor in one building that can do soup-to-nuts post-production from editorial to delivery” says Jonathan Sheldon, head of post-production at Buffalo8.
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