The Celestine Prophecy Movie

The Celestine Prophecy movie is produced by Barnet Bain, Terry Collis, James Redfield and Beverly Camhe, with Executive Producer Salle Redfield. Directed by Armand Mastroianni from a screenplay by James Redfield & Barnet Bain and Dan Gordon with the musical score composed by Nuno Malo. Scroll down to learn more.

CO-WRITER/PRODUCER
James Redfield has been keenly interested in human spirituality all of his life. He grew up in a rural area near Birmingham, Alabama; and from an early age, he was motivated by a need for clarity about spiritual matters. Brought up in a Methodist church that was loving and community oriented, he was nevertheless frustrated by a lack of answers to his questions about the true nature of spiritual experience. As a young man, he studied Eastern philosophies, including Taoism and Zen, while majoring in sociology at Auburn University.

He later received a master's degree in counseling and spent more than 15 years as a therapist to abused adolescents. During this time, he was drawn into the human potential movement and turned to it for theories about intuitions and psychic phenomena that would help his troubled clients.

Since 1994, when Warner Books published The Celestine Prophecy in hard cover, this adventure parable about a spiritual journey to Peru became one of modern publishing's greatest success stories. According to Publishing Trends, The Celestine Prophecy was the #1 international bestseller of 1996 (#2 in 1995). In 1995 and 1996, it was the #1 American book in the world. This phenomenal novel spent over three years on the NewYork Times bestsellers list and appeared on lists around the world.

James Redfield also authored two more adventure tales in the Celestine series -- The Tenth Insight and The Secret of Shambhala. In 2002, he also co-authored God and the Evolving Universe with Esalen founder Michael Murphy and filmmaker Sylvia Timbers. James Redfield and Barnet Bain co-wrote with Dan Gordon the screenplay for The Celestine Prophecy Movie (more...).

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Salle was there at the beginning when she fell in love with a psychologist who had the draft of a novel. She was there through the rewrites and then as wife and financial partner through the self-publishing and the showing of the book to alternative and independent bookstores. She held an abiding intuition that the book was important, and Salle Redfield then witnessed the international best-selling acceptance of it.

When Salle and James lecture together, Salle begins their programs with a guided meditation. Warner Books, now publisher of The Celestine Prophecy, saw Salle lead a meditation in 1995 and offered her a contract on what became an important resource for readers of the novel -- The Joy of Meditating. Salle's writing also appears on www.celestinevision.com, The Celestine Prophecy website.

In the twelfth year of their partnership and marriage, the couple's intention to adapt The Celestine Prophecy into a wide-release movie was realized. Throughout the process, from production agreements to casting to location searches, Salle was an integral part of the vision making. On the movie set, from first day to last, she appeared with James to hold the center of the consciousness of purpose for the film. And amid the demanding activity of actors and crew and equipment all around her, her radiant smile and confident intensity were both seen and felt. Although youthful, with sometimes tousled blonde hair, Salle Redfield stood as the gentle and protective Mother of the film's family, and she held the center of all good intentions to make The Celestine Prophecy movie a conscious reflection of her husband's life-changing book.

CO-WRITER/PRODUCER
Producer and screenwriter, Barnet Bain has earned a reputation for creating innovative projects that celebrate the human spirit. His movies as producer include 1998's "life after death" Oscar winner What Dreams May Come. His recent television production Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story, a powerful celebration of the difference teachers can make in the lives of young people, received three Emmy nominations and earned him the Christopher Award as well as an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Made for Television Movie of 2003. He is the screenwriter of the Warner Bros. film Jesus, which continues to screen worldwide and has been translated, to date, into 848 languages. The New York Times (Sunday, February 8, 2004) noted the film may have become the most-watched movie ever. Other distinguished productions include The Linda McCartney Story and Quantum Project, the first Hollywood motion picture developed and produced specifically for the Internet. Barnet has produced a dozen motion pictures over the last decade.

PRODUCER
Terry Collis is a veteran of more than 25 years in the motion picture industry. An early credit was as a stuntman on Thelma and Louise. He is now a successful filmmaker with extensive background as a producer and production manager of feature films and years of experience as a production executive for major Hollywood companies.

During his career, he has directed numerous videos and second units and has served as production manager for such feature films as What Dreams May Come, Tombstone, Total Recall, Rambo III, and Friday the 13th. Additionally, he was production executive on such features as Die Hard with a Vengeance directed by John McTierman and Scarlet Letter directed by Roland Joffee.

Terry produced Shadow Conspiracy for Cinergi Pictures, Eugenio Zanetti's Quantum Project, and the Daylight miniature unit for Rafaella Productions. Terry's experience in filmmaking is international in scope. He has filmed in Canada, Mexico, Israel, Thailand, Italy, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico.

PRODUCER
Beverly Camhe has been in the entertainment industry for 25 years. She began her career as a literary manager working with playwrights, composers, and lyricists. Then she managed The Urban Art Corps, the African American theater company that produced the Broadway hit Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God. She went on to develop dramatic programming for David Frost while he was doing his groundbreaking television journalism, such as The Nixon Interviews. Beverly then worked with Tomorrow Medcom Entertainment, the company that spawned reality television. They produced the Emmy Award-winning series The Body Human and the first reality series in medicine -- Lifeline -- for NBC.

As VP of Martin Poll Productions, she developed the script for the Sylvester Stallone feature Nighthawks. Beverly then became Senior VP, Movies and Miniseries, for Lorimar Television during the company's heyday of Dallas, Knots Landing, and their many award-winning miniseries, including Helter Skelter. She also served as a Senior VP of Development for David Susskind Productions at MGM-UA. Beverly then joined Gabriel Katzka in a production company that produced The Falcon and the Snowman.

As Beverly Camhe Productions, she produced The Believers for Orion Pictures, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Martin Sheen; The Package, starring Gene Hackman and Tommy Lee Jones; and Junior, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny De Vito. Her most recent efforts are Car Talk, an animated series based on the PBS radio show, and Pepe and Stefano, a film based on her own script.

DIRECTOR

Armand Mastroianni has been directing feature films and television for the past 25 years beginning with his first--He Knows You're Alone--which was released by MGM in 1980 and featured the screen debut of Tom Hanks. That film led to a long string of features including The Killing Hour, developed with William Friedkin, The Supernaturals, Distortions, Cameron's Closet, and Double Revenge.

In between shooting feature films, Armand Mastroianni began to direct television episodic programs, including Dark Shadows, Against the Law, Friday the 13th, War of the Worlds, Reasonable Doubt, Touched by an Angel, and Dead Zone.

Working almost non-stop, Armand has directed several highly received miniseries, including Danielle Steel's The Ring and Robin Cook's Invasion. His two-hour movies include The Linda McCartney Story, Dare to Love, Robin Cook's Virus, Final Run, Deep Trouble, Nowhere to Land, Fatal Error, First Target, First Shot, and for the TBS Superstation, First Daughter, which was the highest-rated movie for cable to date.

Prior to directing The Celestine Prophecy, he directed Gone but Not Forgotten, a four-hour miniseries starring Brooke Shields, Scott Glenn, and Lou Diamond Phillips based on the novel by Philip Margolin, for Hallmark Entertainment.

Since filming The Celestine Prophecy, Armand has directed two Jane Doe mystery movies for television -- Till Death Do Us Part and Now You See It, Now You Don't, starring Lea Thompson and Joe Penny.

His most recent directorial projects include, "Falling in Love With the Girl Next Door" followed by "Yes, I Remember it Well" and a film version of Jerry Jenkins bestseller, "Though None Go with Me".

COMPOSER

Nuno Malo's mother encouraged him to read The Celestine Prophecy in his native Portugal. Ten years later after studying composition in London and in Los Angeles at USC, Nuno learned that the book was now a feature film in production. Nuno, only 26 years old at the time, had ample credits and musical scoring examples to share in his audition CD. He had scored three features produced in Portugal - Manô, Fado Blues with a released soundtrack, and Police Woman, a film that had appeared at festivals worldwide, including the Berlin Film Festival. In addition, his solo CD Star-Crossing had been nominated as Best Instrumental Album at the Golden Melody Awards.

After his initial demo CD was heard, Nuno was invited to submit a second CD of original thematic music appropriate to The Celestine Prophecy, and although many other composers were heard, the producers kept coming back to Nuno. Some of the original melodies in the second CD remain in the final score. After only four years in Hollywood, Nuno found himself collaborating with the author of one of his most esteemed books; and during the scoring process, James Redfield was an almost daily visitor to his studio. Nuno felt that he was experiencing the true meaning of synchronicity. The movie music was performed in Seattle, Washington by The Northwest Sinfonia and Chorale.

CO-WRITER

As a master storyteller, Dan Gordon creates indelible characters and relationships, which have afforded actors the opportunity to play some of their most unforgettable roles. From Kevin Bacon’s haunting portrayal of Henry Young in Murder in the First to Kevin Costner’s darkly heroic lawman in Wyatt Earp, from Aiden Quinn’s conflicted spy in The Assignment to Denzel Washington’s towering portrayal of Rubin Carter in The Hurricane, Gordon’s characters are marked by their struggle to maintain their humanity in the face of overwhelming adversity.

Dan Gordon graduated UCLA as a film and television major and later served as a Sergeant in the Israeli Army. His film credits include: Tank, Gulag, Passenger 57, Wyatt Earp, Murder in the First, The Assignment, The Hurricane, The Celestine Prophecy and the upcoming Mafia Cop for Mandalay Pictures. In addition he is the producer of the upcoming feature length documentary about the Middle-East connection to the Oklahoma City bombing called Persons Unknown for Showtime and Lions Gate films. He is the founder of the Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking in Sedona and LAPD reserve police officer for the past fifteen years and a member of both the WGA and NDGA of America. He is, in addition, the author of five novels.