‘THE CABIN’
PRODUCTION BIOS
LARRY LEVINSON (Executive Producer) — Larry Levinson has served as executive producer on a wide range of movies, from miniseries to feature films. He has overseen numerous Hallmark Channel Original Movies in every genre, from adventure to drama to romance.
Levinson also executive produced the popular Hallmark Channel Mystery Movie franchises “Jane Doe,” “McBride,” “Mystery Woman” and “Murder 101.”
His film credits include “Larry McMurtry’s Streets of Laredo” and “Larry McMurtry’s Dead Man’s Walk.” He executive produced Burt Reynolds’s “Hard Times” telefilms featuring detective Logan McQueen. He also executive produced, with actor Dennis Quaid, “Everything that Rises” and “Mark Twain’s Roughing It.” With actor Tom Berenger, Levinson executive produced “Rough Riders.”
For the Hallmark Channel, Levinson’s substantial work as executive producer on original films includes “The Last Cowboy,” “Straight From the Heart,” “Love Comes Softly,” “Audrey’s Rain,” "The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay,” “Hard Ground,” “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 Reading Room,” “Our House,” “Where There’s A Will,” “Love’s Enduring Promise,” “Out of the Woods” and “Thicker Than Water.” Most recently, he has executive produced “Oliver’s Ghost,” “Honeymoon For One,” “Farewell Mr. Kringle,” “After the Fall,” “Backyard Wedding,” “Meet My Mom” and “Keeping Up with the Randalls.”
Levinson also served as executive producer on “The Christmas Card” in 2007. The film stands as the Hallmark Channel’s highest-rated original movie.
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BRIAN TRENCHARD-SMITH (Director) – Brian Trenchard-Smith is an Anglo Australian film and television director, producer and writer, with a reputation for large-scale movies on small- scale budgets. Quentin Tarantino referred to him in Entertainment Weekly as one of his favorite directors. His early work is featured in “Not Quite Hollywood,” an award-winning documentary released by Magnolia in August 2009.
Born in England, Trenchard-Smith attended the prestigious Wellington College, where he neglected studies in favor of acting and making short films, before migrating to Australia. He started as a news film editor, then graduated to network promos before he became one of a
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group of young people who lobbied the government into introducing investment for Australian made films. He persuaded Australia's largest distribution-exhibition circuit at the time, the Greater Union Theater Organization, to form an in-house production company that he would run. The company made three successful films in a row, and his career was underway. In parallel careers, he was also founding editor of Australia's quarterly Movie magazine for six years, and has made over 100 trailers for other directors in Australia, Europe and America.
Among his early successes were the 20th Century Fox release “The Man From Hong Kong,” the Vietnam battle movie “Siege Of Firebase Gloria” and the futuristic satire “Dead End Drive-In,” a particular Tarantino favorite. “BMX Bandits,” showcasing a 15-year old Nicole Kidman, and Miramax's “The Quest,” both won prizes at children's film festivals in Montreal and Europe. He has also directed 35 episodes of television series as diverse as “Silk Stalkings,” “Time Trax,” “Five Mile Creek,” “The Others,” “Flipper,” and the Showtime docudrama “DC 9/11: Time Of Crisis,” one of five movies he made for the network.
Trenchard-Smith's two most recent completed films are “Porky's-The College Years,” a re- imagining of the famous 80's franchise of teen comedies, and the family drama disaster movie “Arctic Blast,” starring Michael Shanks and Bruce Davison, which premiered on Spanish television as the number one movie with more than 2.5 million viewers.
His multi-generic body of work has been honored at the Paris Cinema, Karlovy Vary, Melbourne, Brisbane and Toronto Film Festivals. In 2009, he was a judge at Fantastic Planet Science Fiction & Fantasy, and A Night of Horror Film Festivals.
Trenchard-Smith is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the Masters of Horror circle, and he writes for FilmIndustryBloggers.com, and is a contributing guru to TrailersFromHell.com. He is married to Byzantine historian Margaret Trenchard-Smith, and lives in Los Angeles.
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GARY GOLDSTEIN (Writer) – Gary Goldstein wrote several Hallmark Channel Original Movies including the romantic comedies’ “The Wish List,” starring Jennifer Esposito and David Sutcliffe and “A Crush On You” starring Brigid Brannagh and Sean Patrick Flanery.
Goldstein’s romantic comedy screenplay, “If You Only Knew,” was produced by Eternity Pictures and Moonstone Entertainment, and starred Johnathon Schaech, Alison Eastwood, James LeGros and Lainie Kazan. He also wrote the independent feature film “Politics of Love,” a romantic comedy set in the weeks leading up to the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. The movie is slated for release later this year.
He has sold or optioned a number of original screenplays to various studios, production companies and independent producers, has a string of episodic television credits including
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“Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Saved by the Bell,” and has sold half-hour comedy pilots to both NBC and Warner Bros Television.
Goldstein has written several comedies for the Los Angeles stage including Just Men, at Hollywood’s Stella Adler Theatre and Parental Discretion and Three Grooms and a Bride, which both enjoyed long runs at the Coast Playhouse in West Hollywood. His family drama Curtain Call premiered in November 2008 at Carmel, California’s Pacific Repertory Theatre, where it was selected as the winner of PacRep’s 2007 Hyperion Playwriting Competition.
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