ROBERT HALMI, JR. (Executive Producer) - Emmy® Award winner Robert Halmi Jr. currently serves as President of RHI Entertainment, LLC (formerly Hallmark Entertainment, LLC). His career as a film producer began in 1980 with “Wilson's Reward,” which garnered numerous awards, including a gold medal at the Houston Film Festival. He has produced more than 100 movies and miniseries for television, including “Dreamkeeper,” “Dinotopia,” “Arabian Nights,” “The 10th Kingdom,” “Cleopatra,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “The Baby Dance” and “Lonesome Dove,” which earned seven Emmy® Awards and a Golden Globe for Best Miniseries. Recent Halmi, Jr. “event” productions include “Earthsea,” “Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” “King Solomon’s Mines,” “La Femme Musketeer,” “Frankenstein,” “Frederick Forsyth’s Icon,” “Supernova,” “Mysterious Island” and “The Poseidon Adventure.”
In 1984, at age 26, Halmi Jr. became President of RHI Entertainment Inc. (RHI) a publicly traded entertainment company founded by his father. In 1994, RHI was sold to Hallmark Cards Inc. and Halmi Jr. became President and CEO of Hallmark Entertainment, the successor to RHI. For over the past decade, Hallmark Entertainment has remained the largest supplier of movies and miniseries in the television industry, garnering more Emmy nominations for television movies than any other production company in the history of television. Under Halmi Jr’s guidance, Hallmark Entertainment produced over 2,000 hours of television programming. These shows received 448 Emmy® nominations and garnered 103 Emmy® Awards.
From 1994-2005, Hallmark Entertainment provided four of the top five highest rated US miniseries and movies made for television, including 2004’s highest rated original movie, “Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven.” Hallmark Entertainment productions have also topped the ratings charts of the major basic cable networks, “Earthsea” for SciFi Channel (their highest rated miniseries in 2005), “Meet the Santas” for Hallmark Channel (highest rated in the history of the network), and most recently Lifetime television with “Human Trafficking,” the highest rated miniseries on basic cable for 2005.
In 1995, Halmi Jr. was instrumental in forming Crown Media Holdings, Inc., which owns and operates pay television channels across the globe dedicated to high quality, broad appeal, entertainment programming. In 2000, Crown Media went public on the Nasdaq® stock exchange. To date, Crown Media has launched channels in more than 122 countries and in 25 languages.
LARRY LEVINSON (Executive Producer) – Larry Levinson has extensive credits as an executive producer, including the telefilm "Johnson County War" and blockbuster miniseries "Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo" and "Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk." His Hallmark Channel productions include "The Last Cowboy," “Straight From the Heart,” “Love Comes Softly,” “Audrey’s Rain,” "The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay,” “Hard Ground,” “Mystery Woman,” “A Time to Remember,” “Just Desserts,” “A Place Called Home,” “The Long Shot (Believe in Courage),” “Life on Liberty Street,” “King Solomon’s Mines,” “La Femme Musketeer,” “The Trail to Hope Rose,” “The Hollywood Mom’s Mystery,” “Murder Without Conviction,” “Wedding Daze,” “Frankenstein” and “Love’s Enduring Promise,” “Out of the Woods,” “Thicker Than Water,” “Jane Doe” and “McBride.” He also executive produced "Mark Twain's Roughing It," "Everything That Rises" with Dennis Quaid, "Rough Riders" with Tom Berenger, and a series of "Hard Time" telefilms starring Burt Reynolds as detective Logan McQueen. Previously, Levinson was supervising producer for the Kenny Rogers' telefilms "MacShayne: The Final Roll of the Dice" and "MacShayne: Winner Takes All."
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ARMAND MASTROIANNI (Director) – Armand Mastroianni wrote and directed the theatrical thriller “The Clairvoyant” and served as producer and director of the revival of the TV cult classic, “Dark Shadows.” His additional directing credits include the television series “Tales from the Darkside,” “Friday the 13th,” “War of the Worlds,” “Reasonable Doubts,” “Touched By an Angel” and “The Dead Zone.” He has directed numerous telefilms including “Virus,” “The Ring,” “Invasion,” “First Daughter” and “The Linda McCartney Story.” He also helmed the feature film “The Celestine Prophecy.”
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SALLY NEMETH (Writer) – Sally Nemeth has written several plays including “Holy Days,” “Mill Fire,” Water Play” and “Sally’s Shorts.” She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, and a new play commission from South Coast Repertory in California. Her career in television began on the hit show “Law & Order” where her scripts went on to win awards from the American Bar Association and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.
