Steve Barnett(III)

As a film producer and studio executive for over 25 years, Barnett has successfully participated in every aspect of the feature film business: development, production, financing, distribution, marketing, and business affairs. Throughout his distinguished career, Barnett has created and maintained a highly productive network of relationships at every studio, talent agency, production company and talent level within the entertainment industry. As result, Barnett has built an impressive track record of financially and creatively successful films that have generated global box office revenues in excess of $1,000,000,000.

Barnett has produced, developed or supervised over 25 feature films covering all genre and budget ranges. Some of the titles Barnett has worked on are; the Warner Brothers' box office smash 300, Paramount's family film The Spiderwick Chronicles, the Frank Darabont/Stephen King horror film, The Mist, to name just a few. Barnett supervised the critically acclaimed political thriller Mark Felt: The Man Who Took Down The White House starring Liam Neeson, and is in post-production on the fantasy, Come Away starring Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo.

Barnett's interest in faith-friendly films began when he secured the film rights and developed the adaptation of the Nicolas Spark's novel A Walk To Remember for Warner Brothers. Since then Barnett has produced the acclaimed film Priceless, which was nominated for a Grammy Award and KLOVE Award and, under the Monarch banner, worked on the first faith-friendly musical, A Week Away, which was bought by Netflix.

Barnett is Partner/CEO of Monarch Media, where he manages the film development, production and financing of a robust slate of feature film and television projects.