Elsewhere Again: Indie IP Studio Now Developing: Hemlock Character-driven stories across every genre Los Angeles, 1985 Pre-Pilot Animatic In Production Elsewhere Again: Indie IP Studio Now Developing: Hemlock Character-driven stories across every genre Los Angeles, 1985 Pre-Pilot Animatic In Production
Elsewhere Again Hemlock

Somewhere Between Here
And Not Quite Here.

Elsewhere Again is an independent IP studio built around character driven storytelling, creative collaboration,
and the belief that some stories deserve to be told no matter how long the road takes.

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Elsewhere Again: First Project

Our first project. A young journalist. A broken institution. A question that has no safe answer.

Political Thriller Mystery Slice of Life Period Drama 17+ In Development
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"A young journalist's first assignment pulls him, his mentor, and a former love into an investigation that exposes cracks in the very system meant to uphold truth, forcing each of them to confront what they're willing to sacrifice for meaning, loyalty, and control."
Los Angeles . 1985 . The Times of Los Angeles . The Office of Public Accountability
Political Thriller Mystery Slice of Life Period Drama Character Drama 17+

The Cast

Four people. One question.
Isaac Russo
* Main Character
Isaac Giancarlo Russo
Age 21, Junior Reporter, The Times of Los Angeles
Anxious, sensitive, and deeply empathetic. Isaac loves hard and holds himself to an impossible standard. Six months after losing his father, thrown back into Delilah's orbit, he takes his first real job trying to prove something to a world that feels rotten at the core.
PersistentSelf-critical IntuitiveLoyal
Insecure, self-critical, and determined to prove something. The kind of person a story like this eats alive. Or doesn't.
Delilah Torneista
Deuteragonist I
Delilah Torneista
Age 23, Ex-lover. Reluctant Ally.
Blunt, avoidant, morally nuanced. She reads situations faster than anyone but shuts down the moment things get personal. She left LA six months ago. Now she's back, and she still hasn't explained why.
AnalyticalAvoidantCourageous
Guarded and evasive. Whatever brought her back to LA, she is not telling.
James Schmitt
Deuteragonist II
James "Smitty" Schmitt
Age 47, Mentor. Father Figure. Something Else.
Cranky, sarcastic, dismissive. Capable of deep care when nobody's looking. A longtime TTOLA journalist who watched everyone else leave. He takes Isaac under his wing almost against his own will.
ExperiencedWryCompromised
Emotionally distant. Mentors Isaac almost against his own will. There is more going on with Smitty than he lets on.
James Jonas Jemmingsen
Deuteragonist III
James Jonas Jemmingsen
Age 59, Editor in Chief.
Quirky, philosophical, emotionally secure in a way that feels almost miraculous. A man who lived through some of America's worst chapters and came out the other side with his warmth intact. He trusts the OPA completely. That trust may be the most dangerous thing about him.
WiseIdealisticWhimsical
The moral center of the newsroom. Steady in a way that feels almost out of place in 1985 Los Angeles.
Who can you trust?

Institutions manipulate. People betray. The only truth worth anything comes from the messy, imperfect connections we choose to make with each other. Trust gets earned through sacrifice and love. Even when everything else falls apart, choosing to care for someone gives life something to hold onto.

+ Tone

Serious and Slice of Life

Real stakes. Real grief. Real laughter. Hemlock does not choose between drama and warmth; it needs both to work.

+ Setting

Los Angeles, 1985

A solarpunk utopia running on cassette-futurist retrofuturism, shaped from the ground up by the OPA. Clean, orderly, optimistic on the surface. The question is what holds it all together.

+ Audience

17+ Character Drama Fans

For viewers who want plot to mean something. Who need characters to earn every moment of consequence the story hands them.

Elsewhere Again
Elsewhere Again x Office of Public Accountability: Open Production Brief
Hemlock's pre-pilot animatic is now in production
Animatic In Progress
Voice Casting
Closed
Casting for the four main roles is now closed. Thank you to everyone who auditioned. Follow our updates for future casting news.
Pre-Pilot Animatic
In Production
Boards and timing are underway on the pre-pilot animatic. This is the current focus of the project.
Project Scope
Pilot First
One pre-pilot episode. If it lands, a full season planned. Honest about where the project stands at every stage.

News and Updates

Hemlock dev logs. Casting news. Behind the scenes.
Casting: Closed
Voice Casting

Casting for the four main roles is now closed

Auditions for the four main roles have closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted. Follow our updates for future casting news.

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Animation Studio Brief
Production

Studio brief coming soon

Not open yet. Small studios with finished work in their portfolio are who we are looking for. Sign up so you hear first.

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Composer: Coming Soon
Music

Composer search opening soon

Hemlock needs someone who can fold 1980s Los Angeles into something genuinely emotional. Details coming shortly.

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Community

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