The nominees for the Writers Guild of America have been announced!
We are thrilled to hear that CALLS is a nominee in the ‘Adapted Short-form New Media’ category.
In collaboration with Apple TV, StudioCanal, Bad Hombre Films and Logan Studios —IMN Creative connected creatives and recorded talent worldwide to bring you the auditory mystery listening experience series: “CALLS”. It was designed as an immersive television experience that uses audio combined with minimal abstract visuals to tell nine short-form stories through nine calls. Calls the series that goes beyond genres is exclusively on Apple+.
Here's a backstage glimpse of CALLS:
This was in IMN's Newsletter last April.Imagine three actors and a director in their own homes... add in two more actors at the IMN Creative Studio, and 20 clientele all linked to a real time remote ADR recording session. With a monitor setup that resembled NASA’s Mission Control, this is the situation that IMN Creative’s Dialogue and ADR Supervisor, Elliot Hartley, recently found himself in during the filming of an unprecedented and ground breaking sound production on Apple TV+’s CALLS, which was entirely produced during the ongoing pandemic.
CALLS is from director, creator and writer Fede Álvarez. This series could be herald a new era of entertainment in future.
Once you start watching the first episode – each episode is around 15 to 20 minutes long – it quickly becomes apparent that this show is something entirely new, an astonishing achievement in an age where the TV market is saturated with multiple seasons of the same shows, reboots, reruns and recycled ideas.
CALLS ‘go back to the basics of storytelling’, Fede said, as they didn’t have to ‘depend on the big scope or the big spectacle of movie making’.
Comparing CALLS to old-fashioned radio shows, he added: ‘To invite people to use their imagination again in this time I think is a beautiful thing.’
If you haven't seen it yet, stop what you are doing and go check it out: apple.co/calls