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Retrofit Films
US film production company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Retrofit Films is a production company located in Los Angeles, California, that develops and produces digital media and entertainment.
History
Retrofit Films was founded by Chris Hanada and Tanner Kling in 2004.[1][2] Starting in 2006, the company began creating companion Web series for television shows.[2] After graduating from Loyola Marymount University’s film school, Hanada and Kling began their careers working at Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner’s C/W Productions on films such as Mission: Impossible 2 and Vanilla Sky, where they contributed to script and story development, research, production and promotion.[3] Hanada and Kling are members of the Producers Guild of America.[4]
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Television and new media
Retrofit Films produces new media projects for television networks, movie studios and advertising brands, including animated and live-action web series, DVD featurettes, mobisodes and gameisodes.[1]
The company created three Web series for NBC's Heroes, entitled Going Postal, The Recruit and Nowhere Man, featuring characters from the series.[1][2][5] The Recruit was nominated for two 2009 Webby Awards.[2] They also created Kara & The Chronicles of Krypton, an animated Web series for The CW Network's's Smallville;[1] the 4-episode companion Web series A Darker Truth for The CW's Vampire Diaries;[6] a Web series for Gossip Girl entitled Gossip Girl: Real New York Stories Revealed;[1] and a companion Web series for NBC's My Own Worst Enemy called Conspiracy Theory.[2][5] Other projects include a 13-part series of 3-minute "appisodes" for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch for the INHouse app for Fox's House in 2010,[7] and 10 on-air/Web Sprint New Media Episodes in 2009 for Heroes entitled Slow Burn.[8] In 2012, Retrofit worked with Marvel on Marvel Mash-Up, a series of interstitials taking footage from classic Marvel animated series and re-editing them in a humorous way. They originally aired on Disney XD and online.[9] In 2015, Retrofit produced the 6-chapter Web series Dark Matters, a prequel to the television miniseries Heroes Reborn, with all six chapters directed by Kling.[10] In 2016, the company executive produced This Isn't Working, a five-part short-form digital series starring Lisa Schwartz, and in 2017 executive produced The Off Season, a five-part short-form digital series starring Robert Belushi and Erica Rhodes, both for ABC.[11][12]
The company's client list includes NBCUniversal, Sprint, Mindshare, Ogilvy & Mather, Edelman, The CW, ABC, Warner Bros., Marvel, DreamWorks and AOL.[1][9][11]
Publishing division
In 2015, Retrofit Films launched a science fiction publishing division, Retrofit Publishing, which was renamed Axiomatic Publishing in 2016.[13] In 2015, Retrofit Publishing put out First Fleet, a collection of serialized novellas by Stephen Case;[14] and The Rewind Files, playwright Claire Willett's debut novel.[15]
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Awards
- The Recruit
- Winner of Two People's Voice Webby Awards: People's Voice, Online Film & Video, Best Series, 2009;[16] People's Voice, Online Film & Video, Best Individual Episode, 2009[17]
- Winner of Silver Telly Award: Online Video, 2009[18]
- Conspiracy Theory
- Winner of Bronze Telly Award: Online Entertainment, 2009[19]
- Nurse Jeffrey: Bitch Tapes
- Nominee, Golden Reel Award: Best Sound Editing – Computer Episodic Entertainment, 2011[20]
- Insidious: Spectral Sightings
- Nominee, Golden Reel Award: Best Sound Editing – Computer Episodic Entertainment, 2014[21]
- Heroes Reborn: Dark Matters – "Chapter Two: Phoebe"
- Winner, Writers Guild Award: Adapted Short Form New Media, 2016[22]
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Academy
- Nominee, Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Digital Series, 2016[23]
Notable Projects
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