Producing over $500 million of production, together with 20 feature films with stars akin to Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liota, Ashton Kutcher, Sharon Stone, Michelle Pfeifer and Ashley Judd, Insight is one of the crucial prolific film and televising manufacturing corporations in Canada.


Opening its doorways in 1990 as a specialist manufacturing firm operated out of Kirk Shaw’s one-bedroom residence in Vancouver, Perception was initially conceived as an audio tour company catering exclusively to the international museum business. After shortly building an award winning fame for excellence with world-class shoppers such because the Smithsonian, Museum of Man and the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, demand for Insight’s production expertise quickly expanded to incorporate Bondars video and interactive media.


Perception modified path in 1993 after Kirk Shaw won a National Display Institute of Canada competition allowing him to make the dramatic quick movie, Quiet Morning. Directly exposed to the tv world, work-procuring his quick-movie with main Canadian writers, Directors, producers and broadcasters, Kirk was bitten by the movie bug. Shaw quickly prolonged Insight’s clientele past museums into broadcast television, producing the long running automotive consumer tv collection, Driver’s Seat by really buying nationwide air time after which selling business spots to main gamers within the automotive trade. This success led to Kirk producing a number of other lifestyle sequence and Insight’s first national documentary series for History Tv in 1998.


In 2000, Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK commissioned Insight to supply a function size documentary, Easter Island, Eyes of the Moai for their HD satellite tv for pc service. This challenge provided Perception with distinctive experience within the HD format just as North American broadcasters started their rapid enlargement into HD. With the knowhow, tools and proficiency gained from the NHK doc, Insight emerged as one of many main companies in North America equipped to provide and put up content in the HD format allowing the corporate to pioneer tv motion pictures on HD. Insight’s first HD movie production was the science fiction movie, Maximum Surge (Walter Koenig, Yasmine Bleeth) shot in 2000.


Over the subsequent 5 years, Insight led the HD revolution, producing a wide range of life-style, documentary, Tv motion pictures and television collection. In tandem with the expansion of production, Insight Film Studios adapted the 1940’s Hollywood Studio manufacturing mannequin to fit the calls for of the twenty first century market. The corporate constructed up an unprecedented infrastructure together with the complete vary of manufacturing equipment, help vehicles, postproduction suites and a big full time workers devoted to producing Perception tasks.


With production revenue surpassing $100 million, in 2005, Insight produced its first US dramatic television collection on HD, Young Blades and delivered the primary of many characteristic movies, When a Man Falls in the Forest (Sharon Stone and Timothy Hutton.)


Propelling Insight’s revenues to $157 million, in 2007, two Perception dramatic sequence aired on US television, Blood Ties for Lifetime and Painkiller Jane, on the SyFy Community. 20 made-for-tv motion pictures were delivered together with several options including, Battle in Seattle starring Charlize Theron. That yr, Playback Journal ranked Insight Movie Studios as Canada’s single largest production firm.


In 2008, Insight production peaked with forty two delivered, generating $180 million in revenue and culminating with the premier on US Tv of the Perception produced comedy collection, Below One Roof starring Flava Flav. Additionally in 2008, Perception shot and produced the North American sequences for the academy award winning, The Damage Locker and, as in the previous year, Perception took Playback Magazine’s top spot as Canada’s largest production firm.


In the present day Insight’s Kirk Shaw is focused on producing a few high finances options by actively growing and packaging new content with sturdy revenue potential. A hands-on EP, Shaw tailors solid, funding sources and filming areas around the globe to the unique requirements of every feature or sequence he packages. Kirk also gives key short time period funding and investment support to again pay-or-play deals for actors, money-stream prep and to safe optimum distribution preparations.