About Lane

Lane Shefter Bishop is a multi-award-winning producer/director who  has received numerous accolades for her work including an EMMY, six  Telly Awards, a Videographer Award, three Communicator Awards, a Sherril  C. Corwin Award, an Aurora Award, a Davey Award, a New York Festivals  Award and the DGA Fellowship Award for Episodic Television. Currently  Ms. Bishop is the CEO of Vast Entertainment, THE go to book-to-screen  company, with numerous projects, both completed and in active  development, including:

Producing Feature Films, THE DUFF for CBS Films & Lionsgate and  ASSASSINATION GAMES for MPCA – both based on books. Producing TV Series,  THE BRAIN TRUST for NBC, CONFESSIONS OF A SOCIOPATH for Universal Cable  Productions, and THE FORGETTING for Netflix – all based on books.  Producing the Limited Series, THE DARK DESCENT OF ELIZABETH FRANKENSTEIN  for Sony Pictures Television – also based on a book. Writing, producing  and directing numerous TV Movies for Lifetime including HIS SECRET  MARRIAGE, HE KNOWS YOUR EVERY MOVE, WICKED MOMS CLUB, BLOOD SWEAT AND  LIES and THE CHOKING GAME. And Directing the Streaming Movie A BROTHER’S  HONOR for Passionflix, based on NY Times bestselling author Brenda  Jackson’s popular novel.

Additionally, Ms. Bishop is also a contributing writer to both Boss  Magazine and Entrepreneur Magazine, is a 3-time speaker at the WGA and  numerous writers’ conferences and is author of SELL YOUR STORY IN A  SINGLE SENTENCE; ADVICE FROM THE FRONT LINES OF HOLLYWOOD, published by  prestigious W.W. Norton & Company (2016). The book hit #1 on Amazon  in New Releases five times before its actual release date. In an online  interview, CNN dubbed her “The Book Whisperer” of Hollywood.

Ms. Bishop holds a B.A. in Literature from 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.