Mid-March 2026

Joan Lane is a British film and theatre producer, primarily known for having developed and packaged the Academy Award-winning ‘THE KING’S SPEECH’, directed by Tom Hooper and starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter, and adapted from the stage play by its author David Seidler, who (at his request) she represented for four years.

Her company, Wild Thyme Productions, has toured six innovative productions of Shakespeare’s plays in the UK and Germany (including the first all-female production of ‘Hamlet’) mounted world premiere showcase performances of new plays and musicals in London, and has a double bill in development for 2026, alongside a topical new musical which has already attracted a great deal of interest. 

Primarily engaged as a Consultant by the BBC, Joan’s skills were used for the recording, filming, and Royal Opera House performance of ‘The Little Prince’. She was a director for BBC Radio Two and BBC Television’s New Talent UK-wide search for the ‘Voice of Musical Theatre’, involved with background music for the film ‘The Actors’, coordinated the participation of singing Angels for Stephen Fry’s directorial film debut ‘Bright Young Things’, and was the casting director and coordinator on a BBC’s Promenade Concert/Opera ‘The Water Diviner’s Tale’.

As well as touring with her own company, she has produced concerts and operas both in London and abroad, worked on a number of plays at the National Theatre and toured with ATG, PW Productions and Pleasance Theatre. She was a member of Major Sir Michael Parker’s team for large-scale State events such as VE Day and VJ Day and was the assistant director on HM the Queen Mother’s 100^th Birthday Celebrations on Horse Guards Parade, televised worldwide. Since 2019, she has been the resident judge on the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing. Brought in to edit the screenplay of ‘Gateway to the West’, she went on to rewrite it. The film is now in post-production and due out later this year or in 2026. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13542474/).

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).

Michael Davies is a UK-based director and writer, currently in pre-production on THE CAPTIVE HEART, a romantic adventure film, shooting this autumn on the Amalfi Coast.

Michael began his career making a wide range of critically acclaimed, award-winning documentaries and drama-documentaries for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 - including seven films with legendary producer Beryl Vertue at Hartswood Films - as well as dramatised adventure films for Discovery Channel. Michael also directed fourteen episodes of the hit BBC children’s drama series TRACY BEAKER RETURNS, winning a BAFTA and two RTS (Royal Television Society) awards.
 
Michael has a long association with the RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), working with writers and directing rehearsed readings and performances of new plays. Two of his feature scripts - THE CAPTIVE HEART and PSYCHOPOMP - have been developed with the Academy. Michael also teaches a regular screen acting masterclass in London, and passionately believes that the way to attract the best talent to your projects is to write characters actors will want to play.

Michael's short film WHAT’S VIRGIN MEAN? screened at over sixty international festivals, winning eight awards and attracting more than ten million hits on YouTube; unusually for a short, it also made a profit. Another of his films, LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, starring John Hurt and Phyllida Law, won fifteen awards, including an RTS, Rushes and Raindance, and was shortlisted for an Oscar.

Prior to co-founding the management/production company Fictional Entity in January 2017, Chris Deckard spent over seven years working with and representing talent at major agencies such as ICM Partners and WME. He has worked closely with traditional and new media buyers to find and develop content for domestic and international audiences. In addition to helping cast and package numerous features and series, he has evaluated thousands of scripts for actors and directors. Chris graduated from Cornell University and earned his J.D. from Notre Dame Law School.

Fictional Entity’s clients have been named to The Black List, The Hit List, The Young & Hungry List, The Blood List and been lauded by the PAGE Awards, the International Emmys and placed as finalists in The Heath Ledger Scholarship and the Academy Nicholl Fellowship The Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Awards, the AWG, ADG, SPA, and AACTA. Clients have written, directed, starred, and produced in numerous formats, including features, TV, virtual reality, and podcasts, independently and for companies like Netflix, NBCUniversal, AMC, Legendary, Meta, Marvel, Fremantle, SyFy, the CW, Warner Bros., Amazon, Blumhouse, Comedy Central, BBC, the ABC Australia, Foxtel, TruTV, Super Deluxe, Hallmark, CBS, Lifetime, E!, and MSNBC.

Chris has advised clients through multiple successful series pilot and pitch sales. He and his business partner were non-writing Executive Producers on a series pilot that sold to a major US network in 2021. In 2024, Fictional Entity client highlights include: a book-to-series pitch sale to Netflix, a first-time writer/director’s feature film entering production, the release of three series from first-time writing Executive Producers, and a feature film release.