Executive Producer) - Emmy® Award Winner Robert Halmi, Jr

PRODUCTION BIOS ROBERT HALMI, JR. (Executive Producer) - Emmy® Award winner Robert Halmi, Jr. currently serves as Chairman and CEO of Hallmark Entertainment Holdings, Inc., a fully-owned subsidiary of Hallmark Cards, Inc. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Crown Media Holdings, Inc. Halmi's career as a film producer began 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, such as “Dreamkeeper,” “Dinotopia,” “Arabian Nights,” “The 10th Kingdom,” “Cleopatra,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “The Baby Dance,” “Mr. & Mrs. Bridge” and “Lonesome Dove,” which earned seven Emmy® Awards and a Golden Globe for Best Miniseries. Recent Halmi, Jr. “event” productions include “King Solomon’s Mines,” “La Femme Musketeer,” “Frankenstein,” “Frederick Forsyth’s Icon,” “Supernova” and “Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island” (all for the Hallmark Channel). Halmi, Jr. was also an executive producer on Hallmark Channel’s highest-rated original movie ever, “Meet the Santas,” the sequel to the previously-highest rated film, “Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus” In 1994, Robert Halmi, Jr. became President and CEO of Hallmark Entertainment, Inc. (HEI), the successor of RHI. Since this time HEI has remained the largest supplier of movies and miniseries in the television industry. Under Halmi, Jr.’s guidance, HEI has produced over 1,000 hours of television programming. These shows have received 419 Emmy® nominations and won 99 Emmy® Awards. HEI has received more Emmy® nominations for television movies than any other production company in the history of television. In 1995, Halmi, Jr. formed Crown Media Holdings, Inc., which currently operates and distributes the Hallmark Channel in the U.S. and more than 122 additional countries in 25 languages. Crown Media is a publicly traded company listed on the Nasdaq® stock exchange. Halmi, Jr. is also responsible for the creation and growth of the HEI film library. This valuable film library consists of over 4,000 hours of family programming. # # # 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 (more) HALLMARK CHANNEL / ‘WILD HEARTS’ -- Production Bios – Page 2 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." # # # STEVE BOYUM (Director) – Steve Boyum directed the feature films “Supercross,” “Meet the Deedles” and “Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision” as well as the television movies “Johnny Tsunami,” “Stepsister from Planet Weird,” “Mom’s Got a Date with a Vampire,” “Motocrossed,” “Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice,” and the Hallmark Channel television events “King Solomon’s Mines” and “La Femme Musketeer.” # # # DONALD MARTIN (Co-Writer) – Donald Martin’s screenplay credits include “Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution,” “The Day I Went Missing,” “My Life as a Dog,” “Coming of Age” and “No Blame.” He won the Gemini Humanitarian Award in 2002 and is the author of two books, “Telling It: Writing for Canadian Film & Television” as well as “One Out of Four.” # # # MITCHELL GABOURIE (Co-Writer) – Mitchell Gabourie has directed “Mob Stories,” “Angel Walk,” “Forever Knight,” “Buying Time” and “The Hitchhiker.” “Wild Hearts” is his second screenplay to be produced. -- HALLMARK CHANNEL -- .

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