About Us
Our working team of seasoned heavyweight professionals, have various high-end credits and awards under the belt and will be a perfect match for this project. Our facilities in association with Post City and Sound Surgeon Studios, are also world-class, and includes the only Dolby certified Atmos soundstage in Africa. We can produce from stereo up to 46.4 Surround Sound mixes in formats such as Dolby Atmos 46.4, Dolby Atmos 11.2, Auro 3D, Dolby 7.1, Dolby 5.1 and Stereo. We also specialize in Music and score compositions and conventional band recordings. Some of our music credits range from Film Scores for projects like Broken Darkness, Inescapable, The last Victims, Angel of the Skies, Dora’s Peace, as well as live recording for audio, video and mixing of the Mumford and Sons album “Thunder and Dust” that was recorded and produced in full Dolby Atoms for Cinema and Blu-Ray distribution. We can record full live orchestras up to ensembles of 120 players. World renowned orchestrator and conductor Graham Lea-Cox being the orchestra leader, and manager. On the Sound mixing and recording members of our team has been involved in projects like Harry Potter, Black Mirror, Transformers, The Alienist, Murder on the orient Express and many more!
Insomnia Studios was established in 2015, partially due to the demand for a facility and a network that could compete in the international market of film and TV post production. We have been in partnership with Post City since 2016, and have addressed a wide variety of post-production demands, that cater for the international Market, as well as some local high end productions. Since Cape Town has become a major film location for international features, it was observed, that most of the post-production work would still leave the country, to be serviced by various overseas facilities and professionals. We have brought a group of highly skilled and internationally acclaimed professionals together, to form a team that can compete with international teams and facilities. We focus on the entire spectrum of filmmaking including pre and post production, on set, producing, directing, data management, and workflow management. In the post production department, we have work flow supervisors, facility managers, offline and online editors in our team, as well as colorists, animators, VFX artists, conceptual artists and storyboard artists.
We take great pride in the fact, that production quality, and client satisfaction is our main priority. We aim to deliver all our projects on time, and within budget, aiming to communicate effectively in the stormy landscape, of film post production. We have a very effective online workflow management system, that can track the progress of all aspects of the workflow effectively, and accurately, in order to give credible feedback to the customer in terms of progress, milestones, and many more deliverables, on an ongoing basis.
Our World class facilities constitute of 4 studios, 2 in Johannesburg and 2 in Cape Town. All our facilities are linked and integrated via high-speed broadband, in order to ensure coherence, and smooth workflow for our distributed model. We also currently have the only Dolby certified Atmos Soundstage in Africa, with a 46.4 surround system, delivering Dolby Atmos, Auro 3D, Dolby 7.1, Dolby 5.1 and Stereo mixes, as well as 2 recording facilities where live orchestras and bands can be recorded. We also have 3 composition studios, where our composer teams work from. Our sound team consists out of Steve Browell, that acts as head of sound for larger projects, with 2 re-recording mixers and 3 sound editors and Foley artists as part of the team.
Our composer team is headed by Geo Höhn, with 3 assistant composers of world class standard. We also have various internal and external QC supervisors, as well as a multi-talented music editor. Our high end customers range from International Film and TV companies, such as STX Entertainment in Hollywood, IFC Films, Alliance from Canada, DS Films from LA, California, and TV companies such as ITV, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, BTV and many more.
