Barnet Bain
Veteran producer Barnet Bain has a long history of spiritually oriented filmmaking working frequently from literary material and collaborating with award winning artists. Select productions include Oscar-winner WHAT DREAMS MAY COME (starring Robin Williams), Eckhart Tolle’s MILTON’S SECRET (starring Donald Sutherland and Michelle Rodriguez), THE CELESTINE PROPHECY, and JESUS also known as THE JESUS FILM, translated into over 1,800 languages and often cited as the most widely seen film in history by The New York Times.
For television, Barnet’s productions include Emmy Award-winner HOMELESS TO HARVARD, THE LINDA MCCARTNEY STORY and QUANTUM PROJECT which made internet history as the first fully digital motion picture produced for worldwide internet distribution, and the first to electronically sell into a movie theatre.
Upcoming productions include Richard Bach’s ILLUSIONS coproduced with Zack Snyder, IL JARDIN SECRETO (THE SECRET GARDEN), and MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS.
Barnet is a former Core Faculty member at Columbia University, Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League masters concentration in spirituality and psychology. He is the author of How to be a Friend: In an Unfriendly World (Wiley, 2026), The Book of Doing and Being: Rediscovering Creativity in Life, Love and Work (Simon & Schuster), and The Third Story: Awakening the Love that Transforms (Spindrift).