Co-founders Duncan Western and Damain Dolniak and Managing Director Richard Folley


Co-founder Duncan Western: Back in 2002 I was cutting various music docs for Somethin’ Else. At the time, there were no post houses in East London, so I was renting an offline suite in Hoxton’s Filmmakers Co-op. The co-op folded shortly afterwards while I was halfway through editing a music doc for Don Letts. My first thought was how to finish the doc I’d promised, and this quickly turned into a business venture with Damian Dolniak stepping in to help with the technical elements. We borrowed money from East London Small Business Centre, friends, families and bought our first on / offline Avid suite complete with a futuristic rise-and-fall desk from the Filmmakers Co-op liquidation sale. On April 1st (yes, really) 2003 Splice launched to an unsuspecting world in a small office in the Truman Brewery in East 1.


About two years later we got a contract to edit the ITV Chart Show and needed more space for another offline suite and with our profit to date invested in a 1,200sq ft building in Shoreditch, which has been our spiritual home ever since. Soon after, we needed another three suites and expanded into Perseverance Works – an ex-printing factory – with 4,000sq ft and another four years later a further 2,000sq ft. The building is still a 25 suite off /online and audio Splice facility. In 2011 Air Studios sold us their 10,000sq ft offices in Old Street which now offers production offices and a further 28 Avid offline suites.


Fast forward to 2022 and we now house 95 suites in three buildings - including our impressive new building you can see on these pages - with a further 60 remote suites and we’re still looking at further expansion. Our work still includes lots of documentaries but now encompasses drama, comedy and entertainment. We’re currently finishing the audio and picture masters for an animated feature film for Sky with the voices of Hugh Laurie, David Thewlis, Emilia Clarke, David Tennant and Himesh Patel.


Still independent, still growing, still in East London … and worldwide! splicepost.com


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