Canadian filmmaker Kirk Shaw is a film and television producer. Best known for his production-packaging and financing prowess, over his 30 year career Kirk has contributed his talents to many television series and feature films, including the Oscar winning, The Hurt Locker. Kirk has worked with all the major studios, plus many notable stars such as Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Kim Basinger, Ray Liotta and Cuba Gooding Jr. Kirk Shaw began producing television films and series in the mid-90s, incrementally building his company, Insight Film Studios, into Canada's largest independent production house. Between 2005 and 2008, Kirk's annual production budgets reached $200 million. Among Kirk's leading television productions at the time were the Lifetime series "Blood Ties" and the SyFy series "Painkiller Jane." Kirk's feature films included, "When A Man Falls" staring Timothy Hutton and Sharon Stone and "Battle in Seattle" directed by Stuart Townsend and "Personal Effects" starring Ashton Kutcher. In 2009 Kirk Shaw stepped away from the production emphasis of Insight to begin actively packaging and finance new productions through Odyssey Media. Taking the helm at Odyssey, Kirk was free to integrate years of producer expertise with his financing and film-packaging strengths to develop a successful new production model for Odyssey based on low-risk co-production opportunities. Supported by a $25 million investment fund, in 2014, Odyssey's total aggregate production budgets exceeded $70 million. That year Odyssey produced a slate of 20 movies of varying budgets including "Drive Hard" with John Cusack and Thomas Jane shot in Australia, "Pound of Flesh" with the Muscles from Brussels, JCVD shot in China, plus the best-selling book adaptation, "The Town That Came A-Courtin'" featuring Valerie Harper. For 2015 Odyssey and Kirk have 25 films and a new television series going into production. Kirk Shaw continues to be a leader in the entertainment industry with a proven, innovative approach to financing and packaging television and film opportunities around the world. In an industry often more interested in bottom line than artistic merit, Kirk is equally proud that his producer resume illustrates a strong creative balance between strictly commercial films and more meaningful artistic film endeavors that can also turn a profit for the producer.
