Michel Shane got his first taste of the movie business in high school when he directed and produced a video short of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman."
[2] In 1982, in an effort to study the emerging market, Shane attended a conference on the future of video in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was mistaken as an industry expert by a local news affiliate.
[3] Two years later, Shane turned MKS into the Prolusion Group with the help of a few business partners, and began to travel internationally purchasing new titles at film festivals he attended.
Based out of both Los Angeles and Montreal, Hand Picked has established itself as an international production company, recently producing films in Brazil, Italy, Croatia, India, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
Michel Shane is producing a 26 part television series based on the classic book Sun Tzu's The Art of War .