Retrofit Films
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| Industry | Entertainment |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2004 |
| Founder | Chris Hanada, Tanner Kling |
| Headquarters | Hollywood, California, U.S. |
Key people | Chris Hanada, Tanner Kling (co-founders) |
| Products | Web series, branded entertainment |
| Website |
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Retrofit Films is a digital production company located in Hollywood, California that creates, develops and produces branded entertainment.
The company is known for their three companion web series for NBC's Heroes entitled Going Postal,[1] The Recruit[2] and Nowhere Man[3] and the animated web series for the CW’s Smallville entitled Kara & The Chronicles of Krypton.[1]
Recent projects include producing thirteen iPhone 'appisodes' for Fox's House,[4] directing ten on-air/web Sprint New Media Episodes for Heroes entitled Slow Burn,[5] producing/directing an original webseries for The CW Network's The Vampire Diaries,[6] and a broadcast and web-branded series (also for The CW) entitled Dove Go Fresh Presents GOSSIP GIRL: Real NYC Stories Revealed. The company's client list includes: NBC/Universal, Sprint, Mindshare, Ogilvy, Edelman, The CW, Warner Bros., DreamWorks, and AOL, among others.
Overview
Retrofit Films is known for its work developing and producing new media projects for television networks, movie studios and advertising brands. With the advent of New Media and the evolution of branded entertainment, Retrofit Films has developed a niche as “turnkey” digital showrunners[1] for these types of projects.
History
After graduating from Loyola Marymount University’s film school, Chris Hanada and Tanner Kling, the two founders of Retrofit Films, started their careers working together at Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner’s C/W Productions on high-profile films like Mission Impossible II, Vanilla Sky and The Others, where they contributed to script and story development, research, production and promotion.
Hanada and Kling formed Retrofit Films in 2004. Since then, they have written, directed and produced a wide array of promotional and marketing campaigns including animated and live-action web series, DVD featurettes, mobisodes and gameisodes.
Awards
- The Recruit (webseries for NBC's Heroes)
- Winner of Two People's Voice Webby Awards: Best Series,[7] Best Individual Episode[8]
- Winner of Silver Telly Award: Online Entertainment[9]
- Conspiracy Theory (webseries for NBC's My Own Worst Enemy)
- Winner of Bronze Telly Award: Online Entertainment[10]
Speaking Engagements
2010
Produced By Conference (June 6)[11]
"Technotainment: Producing and Delivering Digital Content"
Tanner Kling, Panelist
SXSW Interactive (March 15)[12]
"Web Series 2.0: Big Campaigns on Digital Dollars"
Chris Hanada, Panel Creator and Participating Panelist
Moderator: Andrew Hampp, AdAge, Panelists: Milo Ventimiglia of Divide Pictures, Melissa Fallon of Davie Brown Entertainment and Wilson Cleveland of CJP
2009
UCLA Extension (December)
“Hollywood Workshop: Storytelling, Marketing, and Entering the U.S. Market"
Chris Hanada presented to network executives from Beijing TV.
UCLA Extension (December)
“Hollywood Workshop: Storytelling, Marketing, and Entering the U.S. Market"
Tanner Kling presented to Korean content creators brought together by KOCCA (The Korea Creative Content Agency).
Notable Projects
2010
Produced 13 "Nurse Jeffrey" appisodes (iPhone-specific mobisodes for House)
Produced The Vampire Diaries: Season 1 DVD
Produced Smallville: Season 9 DVD
2009
Directed Slow Burn (A broadcast and web-branded series for Sprint and NBC'sHeroes)
Produced and Directed The Vampire Diaries - A Darker Truth (An original webseries for The CW's Vampire Diaries)
Produced Dove Go Fresh Presents Gossip Girl: Real NYC Stories Revealed (A broadcast and web-branded series for Unilever and The CW Network)
Produced and Directed Nowhere Man (An original webseries for NBC's Heroes)
Produced Smallville: Season 8 DVD
2008
Produced The Recruit and Going Postal (Two original webseries for NBC's Heroes)
Produced and Directed Conspiracy Theory (An original webseries for NBC’s My Own Worst Enemy)
Produced and Directed Kara & The Chronicles of Krypton for Smallville
Produced Smallville: Season 7 DVD
Produced Heroes: Season 2 DVD (Select featurettes)
2007
Retrofit Films helped create the international advertising campaign for Adidas and their NBA All-Stars which included an integration of storylines and flash games (gameisodes) for online and mobile phone platforms.
References
- 1 2 3 “Retrofit Films Shoots Webisodes for 'Vampire Diaries'”, Videography, 21 October 2009.
- ↑ “The Recruit - Credits”, NBC.com.
- ↑ “Nowhere Man - Credits”, NBC.com.
- ↑ “Retrofit Films Makes ‘House’ Calls With iPhone Appisodes”, Tubefilter, 18 May 2010.
- ↑ “Heroes Web Series Heading to the Carnival”, Tubefilter, 18 September 2009.
- ↑ “’Vampire Diaries’ Prequel Web Series, CW Starts Biting Early”, Tubefilter, 26 August 2009.
- ↑ “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.
- ↑ “Produced By Conference 2010 – Technotainment: Producing and Delivering Digital Content”, ProducedByConference.com.
- ↑ “SXSW 2010 Interactive – Web Series 2.0: Big Campaigns on Digital Dollars”, SXSW.com.