Lane Shefter Bishop - Director / Writer / Producer

Lane Shefter Bishop has experience with every stage of entertainment project development, from conception to packaging, through post-production. She spent nearly a decade working in motion picture development at Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures, among others, and has been a working producer and director for over fifteen years.

Ms. Bishop was also President of her own production company, Moxie Productions, through which she produced and directed such projects as ABC?s Home Show, Showtime?s The Affair, HBO?s Hotline series and MTV?s Rock The Vote. She has won numerous accolades for her directing work including an EMMY, a Telly, a Videographer Award, a Sherril C. Corwin Award, an Aurora Award, a New York Festivals Award and the DGA Fellowship Award for Episodic Television.

Ms. Bishop has produced and directed numerous television shows and five feature-length motion pictures. Her most recent work includes the feature film The Day Laborers, which received Official Selection in Edward James Olmos' LA Latino International Film Festival, Cine Accion (San Francisco), OutFest (Hollywood), Reel Affirmations (Washington DC), NewFest (New York) as well as the Milan International Film Festival in Italy. The film was distributed through both HBO and Blockbuster Video.

For the last two years, Ms. Bishop was the Executive Vice President of Motion Pictures and Television at a new start-up, TwinStar Entertainment, where she worked as director and producer as well as being in charge of all creative development. In her time at the company, Ms. Bishop built an impressive slate of projects, based on well-known branded material by such notables as Harlequin (worlds leading publisher of women?s fiction), Scholastic (worlds leading publisher of children?s books) and Sandra Brown (author of fifty-seven New York Times bestsellers.) Ms. Bishop was also able to secure representation for the company with one of the top agencies in the business, Paradigm, as well as close a deal for three tv movies with ABC FAMILY. Currently, Ms. Bishop is CEO of Vast Entertainment.

Ms. Bishop holds a B.A. in Literature from the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara and an M.F.A. in Production from USC's School of Cinema/Television. She is a director-member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and is married to award-winning producer, Andrew Bishop.

THE DAY LABORERS (LOS JORNALEROS)    (feature film)

• Official Selection, NewFilm Festival
• Official Selection, Reel Affirmations Film Festival
• Official Selection, Outfest
• Official Selection, LA Latino Int'l Film Festival
• Official Selection, Cine Accion Film Festival
• Offical Selection, Milano Int'l Film Festival

MS. BISHOP's DIRECTING AWARDS

• Emmy Award Winner - Los Angeles
• Emmy Award Nomination - Los Angeles
• Telly Award Winner
• New York Festivals Award Winner
• Videographer Award Winner
• Aurora Award Winner
• Telly Award Winner
• DGA Fellowship for Episodic Television
• Sherril C. Corwin Playwriting Award