Retrofit Films
Industry | Entertainment |
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Founded | 2004 |
Founder |
Chris Hanada Tanner Kling |
Headquarters | Los Angeles, CA |
Products |
Web series Branded entertainment |
Website |
retrofitfilms |
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 II 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]
Overview
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]
The company's client list includes NBCUniversal, Sprint, Mindshare, Ogilvy & Mather, Edelman, The CW, Warner Bros., Marvel, DreamWorks and AOL.[1][9]
Publishing division
In 2015, Retrofit Films launched a science fiction publishing division, Retrofit Publishing, which was renamed Axiomatic Publishing in 2016.[11] In 2015, Retrofit Publishing put out First Fleet, a collection of serialized novellas by Stephen Case;[12] and The Rewind Files, playwright Claire Willett's debut novel.[13]
Awards
- The Recruit
- Winner of Two People's Voice Webby Awards: People's Voice, Online Film & Video, Best Series, 2009;[14] People's Voice, Online Film & Video, Best Individual Episode, 2009[15]
- Winner of Silver Telly Award: Online Video, 2009[16]
- Conspiracy Theory
- Winner of Bronze Telly Award: Online Entertainment, 2009[17]
- Nurse Jeffrey: Bitch Tapes
- Nominee, Golden Reel Award: Best Sound Editing – Computer Episodic Entertainment, 2011[18]
- Insidious: Spectral Sightings
- Nominee, Golden Reel Award: Best Sound Editing – Computer Episodic Entertainment, 2014[19]
- Heroes Reborn: Dark Matters – "Chapter Two: Phoebe"
- Winner, Writers Guild Award: Adapted Short Form New Media, 2016[20]
Notable Projects
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2008 | Going Postal | Producer | Original Web series for Heroes (NBC) |
The Recruit | Producer | Original Web series for Heroes; winner of two 2009 Webby Awards; winner of 2009 Silver Telly Award | |
Conspiracy Theory | Producer, director | Original Web series for My Own Worst Enemy (NBC) | |
Kara & The Chronicles of Krypton | Producer, director, writers | Original Web series for Smallville (The CW) | |
Smallville Season 7 DVD | Producer | ||
Heroes Season 2 DVD | Producer | Select featurettes | |
2009 | Slow Burn | Director | Broadcast and Web-branded series for Sprint and Heroes |
The Vampire Diaries: A Darker Truth | Producer, director | Original Web series for Vampire Diaries (The CW) | |
Dove Go Fresh Presents Gossip Girl: Real NYC Stories Revealed | Producer | Broadcast and Web-branded series for Unilever and The CW | |
Nowhere Man | Producer, director | Original Web series for Heroes | |
Smallville Season 8 DVD | Producer | ||
2010 | Nurse Jeffrey | Producer | 13 iOS appisodes for House (Fox) |
Vampire Diaries Season 1 DVD | Producer | ||
Smallville Season 9 DVD | Producer | ||
Michael Jackson: The Experience Live! | Producer | Live-streamed webcast for Xbox Kinect game Michael Jackson: The Experience | |
2012 | Marvel Mash-Up | Producer | Series of interstitials re-editing Marvel animated series |
Nikita: Codebreaker | Producer | 10-part interactive game series for Nikita (The CW) | |
2013 | Insidious: Spectral Sightings | Producer, writer | Three-part digital prequel to Insidious to promote Insidious: Chapter 2 |
2014 | The Flash: Chasing Lightning | Producer | Digital series on The CW website for The Flash |
Fandango FrontRunners | Producer | Digital series about Academy Award nominees for Fandango.com, hosted by Dave Karger | |
Think Inside the Box | Producer | Digital promotion for The Boxtrolls and Amazon.com | |
2015 | Heroes Reborn: Dark Matters | Producer | Six-chapter Web series for Heroes Reborn miniseries |
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 “Retrofit Films Shoots Webisodes for 'Vampire Diaries'”, Videography, 21 October 2009.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Liz Shannon Miller, “Q&A With Heroes Webseries Creators Chris Hanada and Tanner Kling,” GigaOm, April 20, 2009.
- ↑ “Chris Hanada and Tanner Kling,” LMU.edu, October 21, 2013.
- ↑ Dave McNary, “Producers elect Gordon, Koch co-presidents,” Variety, June 4, 2010.
- 1 2 Marc Hustvedt, “NBC Prepping Fourth ‘Heroes’ Web Series,” Tubefilter, February 25, 2009.
- ↑ “’Vampire Diaries’ Prequel Web Series, CW Starts Biting Early”, Tubefilter, 26 August 2009.
- ↑ “Retrofit Films Makes ‘House’ Calls With iPhone Appisodes”, Tubefilter, 18 May 2010.
- ↑ “Heroes Web Series Heading to the Carnival”, Tubefilter, 18 September 2009.
- 1 2 Marc Strom, “Doing the Marvel Mash-Up,” Marvel.com, March 19, 2012.
- ↑ “Exclusive Interview with Heroes Reborn: Dark Matters’ Aislinn Paul,” talknerdywithus.com, August 27, 2015.
- ↑ Connie Bennett, “Book Review: The Rewind Files,” KLCC (FM), February 5, 2016.
- ↑ “Book Review: First Fleet by Stephen Case,” Farstrider Magazine, November 27, 2015.
- ↑ Alex Telander, “The Rewind Files,” San Francisco Book Review, November 16, 2015.
- ↑ “Webby Awards - People’s Voice Winner – Drama: Series”, Webby Awards, 2009.
- ↑ “Webby Awards - People’s Voice Winner – Drama: Individual Episode ”, Webby Awards, 2009.
- ↑ “30th Annual Telly Awards – 2009 Online Video Silver Winners”, Telly Awards, 2009.
- ↑ “30th Annual Telly Awards – 2009 Online Video Bronze Winners”, Telly Awards, 2009.
- ↑ Alexa Harrison, “’Black Swan,’ ‘Inception’ top sound noms,” Variety, January 21, 2011.
- ↑ Maane Khatchatourian, “’Game of Thrones’ Rules Golden Reel Awards TV Nominations,” Variety, January 17, 2014.
- ↑ “2016 Writers Guild Award Winners Announced,” wga.org, February 13, 2016.