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]
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]
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"
