Editor Kevin Zimmerman has joined the roster at Spot Welders in Los Angeles. A comedy and dialogue specialist, he has cut for such brands as Bud Light, Taco Bell, Jell-O, X-Box, Hotels.com, and Capital One. Among his agency clients are shops like Crispin Porter + Bogusky, DDB, Deutsch and 72andSunny.
Zimmerman comes over from NO6 in Santa Monica; prior to that he was with The Whitehouse, also in L.A. He got his start at Mad River Post, where he worked as an assistant before becoming a full-time editor. He was also on the roster at FilmCore and spent several years as a freelance editor working at a range of editorial houses in L.A., New York and Toronto.
The move to Spot Welders reunites Zimmerman with editors he’s worked with in the past, such as Gordon, who was also at Mad River, and Livio Sanchez, with whom he worked at both Mad River and The Whitehouse.
Zimmerman studied film at SUNY in Binghamton, New York before enrolling at Boston University for graduate-level studies in cinematography. He relocated to the West Coast and found himself at Mad River, starting as the vault manager. It was, he recalls, “a right place, right time” kind of move, as he quickly got into editing, drawn to its ability to have more influence on the storytelling process.
