‘BE MY VALENTINE’

PRODUCTION BIOS

DEBORAH MARKS (Executive Producer) – Deborah Marks has had an extensive career in physical production and project development and has worked for Hallmark Channel, Lifetime Network, ABC Disney, TNT and the Canadian networks Showcase and CBC. She has produced both independent features and the US Cable TV movies “Double Wedding” (Tia and Tamara Mowry), “Silent Witness” (Dermot Mulroney and Anne Heche), and “Salem Falls” (James Van Der Beek).

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SCOTT W. ANDERSON (Executive Producer) – Scott Anderson brings over a decade of production experience to “Naughty or Nice,” his first film for Hallmark Channel. Starting in 1996, when he served as a co-producer on Lifetime’s “The Abduction” starring Victoria Principal, Anderson built up an impressive range of production credits on television movies and feature films alike. He produced and executive produced films for USA (“Cool Money” starring James Marsters), Oxygen (“Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber” starring Jennifer Love Hewitt), TBS (“Atomic Twister” starring Sharon Lawrence and Mark-Paul Gosselaar), Showtime (“Safe House” starring Patrick Stewart), TNT (“Dollar for the Dead” starring Emilio Estevez), CBS (“The Long Kill” starring Willie Nelson) and Disney (“The Ultimate Christmas Present” starring Brenda Song), among others. Most recently, Anderson was a producer on the feature thriller “Escapee” starring Dominic Purcell.

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DAVID TITCHER (Co-Executive Producer/Writer) – David Titcher was nominated for a WGA Award and a Saturn Award for his blockbuster TNT hit, “The Librarian: Quest for the Spear,” which starred Noah Wyle, Bob Newhart and Olympia Dukakis. It spawned two sequels and was the highest rated movie on all cable for several years. He also wrote the feature films “Around the World in Eighty Days,” which starred Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Owen Wilson and the cult film “Morgan Stewart’s Coming Home,” which starred Jon Cryer and Lynn Redgrave. Titcher wrote the Hallmark Channel Original Movie Event, “The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb,” starring Malcolm McDowell and Casper Van Dien. He currently has numerous scripts in development at various studios and networks.

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GRAEME CAMPBELL (Director) – Graeme Campbell is one of Canada’s most versatile directors, having helmed features, television series, television movies, and documentaries. Along the way he has worked with some of the best actors in the business including Rachel

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MacAdams, Billy Baldwin, John Ritter, George C. Scott, Ellen Page and William Shatner among others.

Campbell’s recent projects include "Everest,” a four hour mini-series telling the grueling story of the first Canadian expedition to the summit of Mt. Everest, starring Eric Johnson, William Shatner and Jason Priestly.

He collaborated with cult director Kevin Smith on “Jay and Silent Bob do Degrassi,” a special two part episode of the international hit youth series, as well as directing multiple episodes of the show itself. He directed multiple episodes of “Instant Star” starring Alexz Johnson. He won a Gemini for Best Director for the episode “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and was nominated for two others.

Following his early career as an editor, Campbell started writing and directing documentaries such as the award winning “Gold Medal Years,” about elderly athletes and began exploring socially provocative material in his first feature, Miramax’s “Murder One,” a chilling story of a crime spree gone wrong. Given an X rating for violence in the US, many scenes had to be cut. The movie was used in the FBI’s agent training program as an example of true criminal psychology.

His first foray into television was the multi award-winning “Journey Into Darkness: The Bruce Curtis Story,” aka “Deadly Betrayal.” According to New York Times journalist Scott Watkins, “Deadly Betrayal” is “…a work of art and stands on its frightening two feet. Through the creative and brilliant direction of Graeme Campbell, the viewer is taken on a roller coaster ride through hell.”

Other television projects followed such as “Unforgivable” starring the late John Ritter for CBS, “Talk to Me,” a caustic spoof on the talk show biz for ABC, the award-winning “Guilt by Association,” starring Mercedes Ruehl which challenged mandatory minimum sentencing laws, and more recently "An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving" with Jacqueline Bisset, also for the Hallmark Channel.

Campbell resides in Toronto with his wife, interior designer Gina Hamilton. They have two grown children.

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J.B. WHITE (Writer) – J.B. White is a screenwriter who has written in almost every genre, including drama, comedy, action, true crime, docudrama, horror and suspense. He has written features for New Line and MGM and movies and miniseries for NBC, CBS, TBS, USA, Lifetime, FX, and VH1, including “Peter Benchley's The Beast,” starring William Petersen and “Guilty Hearts” starring Marcia Gay Harden and Treat Williams. He wrote “The 12 Days of Christmas Eve” for executive producer Jean Abounader. For Hallmark Channel, White has written “Come Dance At My Wedding,” “The National Tree” and “Three Weeks, Three Kids.” --HALLMARK CHANNEL--