Sila Soyer

Sila hates bios…but if you must know, she was born and raised in Alabama by Turkish doctors – go figure. She managed to finish college in 4 years (with a gap year in the middle) by somehow making sure all her credits transferred as she bounced between 5 different schools, including The New School, University of Toronto, Emerson, Trinity College (Dublin), and finally getting her degree from NYU Tisch.

After working on Sound Design & Foley for “deferred payment” and credit on indie features (Slingblade, Niagara Niagara, Tromeo & Juliet – yes, a Troma film), she needed to pay rent so she took a job as an Assistant Editor at a commercial edit house. From there she continued her tradition of bouncing around and worked as a freelance editor, a production coordinator, agency producer and finally landed back in post as a producer.

Today she is Executive Producer and Managing Partner of Arcade Edit, an award winning bicoastal editorial collective and trusted collaborator, providing high level talent and processes to agencies such as Wieden & Kennedy, Arts & Letters, Anomaly, BBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi, Goodby, Droga, 72 & Sunny and more. In January 2023, she had, what some might call, a “midlife crisis” and started training in floor karate (known in some circles as Brazilian Jiu Jitsui). By October of the same year, she was promoted to blue belt and in September of 2024, she won her first World Championship (IBJJF).  She is now a purple belt and is still baffled by it.

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