Editor Joe Kriksciun, familiarly known as Joe K, has joined FilmCore. A two-time AICE Award nominee, Kriksciun will be based out of FilmCore’s New York office but also expects to work out of the company’s facilities in Santa Monica, San Francisco and Chicago. Formerly with Go Robot, New York, Kriksciun has cut spots for such accounts as Smirnoff, IBM, Motorola and the ONDCP. In his first project for FilmCore, Kriksciun is cutting a campaign for ESPN and The Martin Agency promoting the network’s coverage of Grand Slam tennis events.
“Joe is a very talented editor who, we feel, is just coming into his own,” said Andrew Linsk, Executive Producer of FilmCore, New York. “His work shows incredible imagination and versatility. He’s a great addition to our team.”
Kriksciun began his career as an assistant with Go Robot in 1999 and rose to editor in just four years. He said that he was attracted to FilmCore by its boutique size and reputation for attracting creatively challenging work.

One of Kriksciun’s first projects as an editor was a PSA titled Yuri for the Ad Council and the group Remember Freedom. Directed by Joe Pytka, the spot presents a man from Eastern Europe discussing his experience with captivity and torture, interwoven with rapid montages of images of freedom. The spot earned Kriksciun an AICE nomination in 2004.

Kriksciun earned a second AICE nomination last year for a collaboration with Japanese director Koichiro Tsujikawa. The Smirnoff spot Whoo Alright-Yeah…Uh Huh, out of J. Walter Thompson, New York, shows water droplets “dancing” to the beat of the song of the same name by The Rapture.

Despite his success with such high concept work, Kriksciun says that he most enjoys cutting dialogue. “There is nothing like cutting actors,” he observes. He added, however, that he values the uniqueness of every project. “Everything you approach has a different life,” he says. “But there are also similarities in what you bring to it. What I most like about editing is the creativity and the control-the field is completely open to creativity.”