How it started
Editcompany grew out of DirectorsCompany in 1996. The video world was shifting fast back then. Directors wanted more grip on their work: not just directing, but shaping the final result too. So they started cutting their own films, and we still do that today. Book a director with us and you get a sharp editor in the same person.
Over the years we grew into a well-known post-production house in Hilversum: eight edit suites, working with whatever mattered at the time, from Media100 to Avid Media Composer to Final Cut Pro.
A new course
In 2012, Maarten and Kirsten took over Editcompany. They’d been part of the team since the early 2000s, so this was less a takeover than the people behind the work stepping up to run it.
They changed tack: away from a fixed team, towards a flexible group of freelancers we know inside out. But they never set out to become bosses behind a desk. They’re makers first, and they’ve stayed that way: still editing, still directing, still hands-on. That’s what sets the tone here.
Since 2014 we’ve been based at ‘De Pionier‘ in Utrecht, a cluster of creative companies we share ideas and projects with.
In 2026 we moved into a new studio at De HoutFabriek, on the Werkspoor campus in Utrecht: more room to work, to experiment and to bring people in, with the same energy as always.
Growing and adapting
On the set of Wetenschap in de Achtertuin with Anna Gimbrère.
In more than twenty years we’ve watched the craft change completely: from heavy gear to software, from Digital Betacam tapes to working in the cloud, wherever you are. We kept up, because we had to and because we wanted to.
Where science slips in
Maarten has been hooked on astronomy and science since he was a kid, and that fascination keeps surfacing in our work. It started with the documentary Sterrenstof, and these days it lives on in the YouTube series ‘Wetenschap in de Achtertuin‘ with Anna Gimbrère. Making complicated science feel close and human is exactly the kind of storytelling we love.
Our heart beats for NGOs
Along the way we found our focus: working with NGOs. Their missions matter, and telling those stories well is what we’re good at. Plenty of organisations trust us with that, and we don’t take it lightly.
Who we are now
We’re a small, agile team of storytellers. We pick projects that interest us and people who keep us sharp, and we make work that actually lands.
Want to work together? Let’s make something that matters.