Brightlight Pictures Inc. is a Canadian

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and

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production company based in

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, Canada.

History

Shawn Williamson is the chairman of Brightlight Pictures. Williamson has produced more than 90 productions in the last 15 years and over 35 productions since launching Brightlight in 2001, such as ''

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'' starring Michael Keaton, which has grossed over $100 million since its worldwide theatrical release in 2005. Brightlight has worked on films with Inferno Picture Pictures, Baldwin Entertainment, Gold Circle Films, and

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, and has been credited for work for

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, Hallmark Channel, Mandate Pictures, Lionsgate Films, Nu Image/Millenium Films,

Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films Emmett/Furla Oasis Films (EFO Films), previously known as Emmett/Furla Films and Oasis Ventures Entertainment separately, is an American film and television production and financing company founded by Randall Emmett and George Furla in 1998. It is ...

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, and Yari Film Group. Brightlight's television credits include the TV series '' Saved'' for TNT and Fox 21 and '' About a Girl'' for

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Network and Global Television. Brightlight also produced the CTV/ Space Channel series ''

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'', an Australian/Singaporean/Canadian Treaty co-production shot in Perth, Broome, Singapore and Vancouver. Brightlight's UK/Canada feature co-production '' Fifty Dead Men Walking'' starring Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess and Kevin Zegers had its world premiere as a Gala Presentation at the

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in September 2008 and was released theatrically in the summer of 2009. Brightlight also produced '' Frankie & Alice'' starring

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and Stellan Skarsgård and the feature film ''

Gunless ''Gunless'' is a 2010 Canadian Western comedy film directed by William Phillips and released by Alliance Films. Plot In 1878, a hardened American gunfighter arrives in a small town in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, a place that doesn't ...

'', a comedy western co-produced with

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's Rhombus Media and distributed by

Alliance Films Alliance Films (formerly Alliance Entertainment, Alliance Communications, Alliance Atlantis Releasing Ltd, Motion Picture Distribution LP and also known as Alliance Vivafilm in Quebec and also known simply as Alliance) was a Canadian motion pictur ...

starring Paul Gross, Sienna Guillory and

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Brightlight Pictures productions

References

External links

Brightlight Pictures official website
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