Brightlight Pictures

Brightlight Pictures Inc. is a Canadian film production and television production company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Brightlight Pictures is an award winning production company. Brightlight's Chairman, Shawn Williamson, has produced more than 90 productions in the last 15 years and over 35 productions since launching Brightlight in 2001, including White Noise starring Michael Keaton, which has grossed over $100 million since its world-wide theatrical release in 2005. Recently, Williamson has worked as a producer on the feature film Horns starring Daniel Radcliffe, for Mandalay Pictures and Red Granite Pictures; 50/50 starring Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; and The Company You Keep, a Sony Pictures Classics release for spring 2013 directed by Robert Redford and starring Redford and Shia LaBeouf.

Brightlight also developed, packaged and produced Mr. Hockey, The Gordie Howe Story in partnership with Inferno Pictures and Balwin Entertainment for the CBC and Hallmark Channel. Other feature producing credits include The Possession starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick for Mandate Pictures and Lions Gate Films; White Noise 2: The Light starring Nathan Fillion and Katee Sackhoff with Gold Circle Films; In the Name of the King starring Jason Statham; 88 Minutes starring Al Pacino; The Wicker Man starring Nicolas Cage for Nu Image/Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films; Slither with Gold Circle Films and Universal and Apollo 18 for The Weinstein Company. Brightlight also produced Possession starring Sarah Michelle Gellar for the Yari Film Group; Passengers starring Anne Hathaway for Mandate Pictures and the feature film Far Cry, based on the video game of the same name.