‘LUCKY IN LOVE’

PRODUCTION BIOS

HOWARD BRAUNSTEIN (Executive Producer) – Howard Braunstein, a two-time Emmy® nominee, was born in 1961 and raised in Los Angeles. He received his bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies at UCLA and his Master’s Degree from the USC Annenberg School for Communication. He started his career at the FOX Network in 1986, when the network was launched. After working at Fox for five years in the research, scheduling and current programming departments, he departed in 1991 to pursue his lifelong career goal of becoming a producer. He met long-time producer Michael Jaffe and they formed their own production company, Jaffe/Braunstein Films, Ltd. Together, they have produced more than 70 television films and six mini-series for the broadcast networks and cable buyers. 2009’s “The Informant” was Braunstein’s first feature film credit.

Recent long-form projects that Braunstein and Jaffe have produced include “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter,” a 2008 telefilm for Lifetime Television and an Emmy nominee for outstanding movie-for-television, the multiple Emmy-nominated “Elvis,” a CBS Television mini-series event starring Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the title role, “The Engagement Ring,” starring Patricia Heaton for TNT, an earthquake disaster mini-series for NBC Universal Television titled “10.5 Apocalypse” -- sequel to the original ratings juggernaut -- featuring Kim Delaney and Frank Langella, “Faith of My Fathers,” based on Senator John McCain’s best-selling book, “Touch the Top of the World,” based on the true story of Erik Weihenmayer -- blind since childhood -- who eventually summits Mt. Everest and “The Brooke Ellison Story,” directed by the late Christopher Reeve, all for the A&E Television Network. Braunstein also executive produced “Growing the Big One,” a Hallmark Channel Original Movie starring Shannen Doherty.

Additional projects include the three-hour television musical event “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific,” starring Glenn Close and Harry Connick Jr., “First Do No Harm,” starring Meryl Streep, “Gilda Radner: It’s Always Something,” a remake of the family classic “Sounder,” for ABC’s “The Wonderful World of Disney” franchise, “Deliberate Intent,” starring Timothy Hutton, the first original film for FX Cable Network, “The Rosa Parks Story,” a winner of the NAACP Image Award for outstanding television movie or dramatic special, featuring Angela Bassett in the title role, who earned both an Emmy nomination and an NAACP Image Award for best actress and “Ice Bound,” starring Susan Sarandon, both for CBS.

Braunstein and Jaffe were also producers and financiers of “The Nero Wolfe Mysteries,” a series for the A&E Television Network, also starring Timothy Hutton. They also financed a second series for A&E titled Sidney Lumet’s “100 Centre Street.”

Braunstein has been married since 1992 to the former Beth Alexander and they have three beautiful children: a son Alex and twin daughters, Emma and Lily.

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KEVIN FAIR (Director) – Kevin Fair began his career in film by writing, producing and directing his own short films. The first was the 10 minute film "Delayed" which was funded by the National Film Board of Canada. This was followed by "The Kiss," winner of the prestigious screenwriting competition Kickstart. Sponsored by the British Columbia Film Commission and the Directors Guild of Canada, Fair was awarded $20,000.00 to make the 15 minute film. It screened in over 25 film festivals in North America and Europe and won Best Comedy at the Yorkton Short Film Festival.

His first foray into episodic television was on the critically acclaimed dramedy "Robson Arms" for CTV in Canada. This lead to the hit Warner Brothers show "Smallville," where Fair spent seven seasons on the directing rotation where he directed multiple episodes including the series finale. Most recently Fair directed the disaster mini-series “Cat 8” for Sonar Entertainment starring Mathew Modine. He has also been a regular director on the CBC show “Arctic Air” starring Adam Beach. ###

TALIA GREEN (Writer) – Talia Green is a licensed private investigator and writer living in Los Angeles. She worked as assistant to the showrunner on the premiere season of FX’s “The Bridge” and is currently working as an assistant to the executive producer of “Homeland” on Showtime. She graduated with honors from the University of Arizona with a degree in Media Arts.

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NINA WEINMAN (Writer) – Nina Weinman hails from beautiful Northern California and attended college at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo where she majored in Journalism. Not looking forward to the solitary life of the newspaper reporter, she headed to Tinsel Town for a little reality and rejection.

Upon coming to LA, she was hired as the assistant to actor/comedian Jeff Foxworthy and occasionally her jokes would end up on an episode of his sitcom. Later, she worked as a story editor at Lifetime Television in the TV movies department, where she put her comedic skills to use on such kooky comedies as “She Cried Help!” and “The Deadly Look of Love.”

Several years ago, her one-act play, Boy Caught, had a successful run at the Third Street Theater and she was later invited to showcase it at the HBO Workspace. In 2006, her pilot, “Confessions of a Former Prom Queen,” was in development at Cosmic Entertainment with Goldie Hawn executive producing.

Weinman has written several movies for Hallmark Channel including “Meddling Mom” and “Backyard Wedding.”

On December 18, 2009, she gave birth to her first child, Rachel Mae Swift, who immediately began providing much inspiration for future stories.

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