‘A CRUSH ON YOU’

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’ “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.” His most recent credits for the network include 2009’s “Always and Forever” and “The Three Gifts.”

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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ALLISON ANDERS (Director) — Allison Anders is a Los Angeles-based independent filmmaker. In 1995 she was the recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant” and in 2002 she won a George Foster Peabody Award for distinguished achievement and meritorious service for her semi-autobiographical film “Things Behind the Sun.” From the release of her acclaimed first feature, “Border Radio” (1989; co-written and co-directed with Kurt Voss) through the critical and popular success of “Things Behind the Sun,” Anders has established a body of work that is innovative in its visual and sound style and marked by ensemble acting and strong women characters.

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Her films as writer-director also include “Gas Food Lodging” (1992), “Mi Vida Loca” (1993), “Four Rooms” (1995), “Grace of My Heart” (1996), and “Sugar Town” (1999; co-directed with Kurt Voss). Anders’ films have premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival, the Berlinale, the Venice Film Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City and festivals all over the world. Retrospectives of her work have been held in Thessaloniki, Greece; Sheffield, England; Hof, Germany; the prestigious Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, and at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic. She has also directed episodic TV including “Sex In The City,” “L-Word” and “Cold Case.”

At UCSB she teaches courses including rock ‘n’ roll films, autobiographic writing, and the history of the American Independent Film Movement. Most recently, Allison sold the original pilot, “QUANAH,” to AMC (co-written with Terry Graham).

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KEITH MERRYMAN & DAVID A. NEWMAN (Writers) – Often working as a team, Keith Merryman and David A. Newman film credits include “Friends With Benefits,” “Family Pictures,” and “32 Candles.” They also wrote television pilots for “How to Girl” and “Wingman.”

Merryman and Newman are currently adapting the Steve Harvey bestseller “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” for Screen Gems. The writing duo also collaborated on the American adaptation of “Patrik 1.5” for Laurence Mark and Spitfire, and sold “Girls Most Wanted” (starring Katherine Heigl) to Fox 2000.

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