Title	HYPNOPOLIS
Brand	BMW AG
Product/Service	PODCAST
Category	B04. Casting & Performance
Entrant	JUNG VON MATT Hamburg, GERMANY
Idea Creation	THE GAME GROUP Hamburg, GERMANY
Idea Creation 2	JUNG VON MATT Hamburg, GERMANY
Production	WHITE HORSE MUSIC Hamburg, GERMANY
Production 2	CALIFORNIA MUSIC Venice, USA

Name	Company	Position
Robert Valentine	None	Writer and director
Max Lederer	Jung von Matt	Executive Creative Director
Thim Wagner	Jung von Matt	Executive Creative Director
David Leinweber	Jung von Matt	Executive Creative Director
Andreas Ernst	Jung von Matt	Managing Director
Jan Anderßen	Jung von Matt	Managing Director
Benjamin Bruno	Jung von Matt	Creative Director
Edwin Okyere	Jung von Matt	Client Service Director
Jan Felix Walther	Jung von Matt	Junior Copywriter
Celina Stammerjohann	Jung von Matt	Junior Project Manager
Felix Ziebell	Jung von Matt	Junior Project Manager
Paul Brenndörfer	Jung von Matt	Senior Strategist
Leroy Adams	Jung von Matt	Strategist
Matthias Grundl	Jung von Matt	Artwork
Julian Schau	Jung von Matt	Artwork
Julian Krohn	White Horse Music	Creative Director and Audio Channel Strategist
Nicholas Nowottny	White Horse Music	Executive Producer and Composer
Lisa Weller	White Horse Music	Senior Music Consultant
Maria Buschuew	White Horse Music	Creative Music Consultant
Kristian Nord	California Music	Sound Engineer
Malte Hagemeister	California Music	Sound Engineer
Dan Moore	California Music	Sound Engineer
Michael Ferdie	California Music	Sound design
Lucas Mireles	California Music	Assistant director
Jens Thiemer	BMW AG	Head of Brand Steering and Marketing
Susanne Giuliani	BMW AG	Head of Content, Digital and Editorial Marketing
Cora Ernst	BMW AG	Digital Audio and Voice Strategy

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Write a short summary of what happens in the radio or audio work.

The story of HYPNOPOLIS takes you on a thrilling adventure in the year 2063. In this brave new world, all court judgements are based on an artificial intelligence called “The System”. And instead of receiving a prison sentence, the convicts are put into a deep sleep. The crime rate has dropped to almost zero, injustice seems to be a thing of the past. But when journalist Hope Reiser is woken from a thirty-year sleep penalty she has served for the murder of her husband, she is convinced of her innocence and believes that the real murderer might still be out there and watching her. And as she tries to find her way in this alien future, she starts fighting to clear her past!

Translation. Provide a full English translation of any audio.

The audio content is in English, so no translation is needed.

Tell the jury about the casting process.

We auditioned about 200 voice actors, from the Los Angeles area and all around the US, and then chose and recorded 14 of them for the podcast. The cast contains seven different nationalities. The recording process took about two weeks. We only recorded five of the speakers in person in the studio, the rest was recorded remotely due to the early pandemic quarantine regulations in spring 2020.