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‘SNOW QUEEN’ PRODUCTION CREW BIOS

ROBERT HALMI, SR.

Robert Halmi, Sr., Chairman of the Board of Hallmark Entertainment, is described in his 1999 Peabody Award citation as "perhaps the last of the great network impresarios." TV Guide calls him "TV's master showman." These and other descriptions sit comfortably on the shoulders of one of the industry's most prolific and respected producers; a man who, in little more than two decades, has created a signature niche in the television business, producing quality, family-friendly long form entertainment.

Halmi has produced nearly 200 television , and motion pictures, including five-time Emmy ® Award-winning The Josephine Baker Story , Gypsy (Bette Midler), Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (, ) and Gulliver's Travels ( and Mary Steenburgen), another winner of five Emmy ® Awards.

Recent Robert Halmi "event" productions include In Cold Blood (, , ), The Odyssey (, Greta Scaachi), Merlin (Sam Neill, Isabella Rossellini, Martin Short, Miranda Richardson), Moby Dick (, ), Dostoevsky’s Crime & Punishment (, Patrick Dempsey), Alice in Wonderland (Tina Majorino, Martin Short, Miranda Richardson), Noah's Ark (, Mary Steenburgen, F. Murray Abraham) and (Leonor Varela, Billy Zane, ).

Triumphs from the 1999-2000 season include Animal Farm (Pete Postlethwaite, with the voices of Patrick Stewart, Kelsey Grammer, ), A Christmas Carol (Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, ), The 10th Kingdom (, Kimberly Williams), (, , Vanessa Williams, Isabella Rossellini), Arabian Nights (Rufus Sewell, Dougray Scott, , Mili Avital) and Jason and the Argonauts (Jason , , ).

Halmi’s projects that aired in the 2000-2001 season include The Lost Empire (Thomas Gibson, Bai Ling, Russell Wong) for NBC, Voyage of the Unicorn () and The Prince and the Pauper (Aidan Quinn) for Hallmark Channel.

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The most technically sophisticated project ever developed for American television, the six-hour , debuted on ABC on May 12, 2002 with stellar ratings.

Future projects include Dreamkeeper for ABC, (Martin Short, , ) for TNT, Mr. Saint Nick (Kelsey Grammer, ) for ABC and Dinotopia: The Series for ABC.

The Hungarian-born Halmi was active in the anti-Nazi underground in World War II, and later was arrested by the Communists when they took over the country. He came to the U.S. in 1950 and worked for many years as an award-winning photographer for Life Magazine . In 1994, Halmi sold his company, RHI Entertainment, to Hallmark Cards. Hallmark Entertainment is the world's leading producer of television movies and miniseries, with an annual production slate of 30-40 projects.

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ROBERT HALMI, JR.

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, Inc., and is a member of the Corporate Executive Council of Hallmark Cards, Inc. Halmi's career as a 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 films and miniseries for television, such as Dinotopia , Arabian Nights , The 10 th 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.

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 Robert’s guidance, HEI has produced over 1000 hours of television programming. These shows have received 362 Emmy ® nominations and won 92 Emmy ® Awards. HEI has received more Emmy ® nominations for television movies than any other production company in the history of television.

In 1995, Robert formed Crown Media Holdings, Inc., which owns and operates pay television channels across the globe dedicated to high quality, broad appeal, entertainment programming. The company currently operates and distributes the Hallmark Channel in the U.S. and more than 110 additional countries in 24 languages. The combined channels have over 88 million subscribers worldwide. Crown Media is a publicly traded company listed on the Nasdaq ® stock exchange. 3

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ROBERT HALMI, JR. (cont’d)

Robert is also responsible for the creation and growth of the HEI film library. This valuable film library consists of over 4000 hours of family programming.

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