Executive Producer ARMYAN BERNSTEIN is the co-founder of Beacon Communications. Bernstein was born and raised in Chicago, graduated from the University of Wisconsin, and began his career as a journalist working for PBS and ABC.
His first produced screenplay, "Thank God It's Friday," starred Debra Winger and Jeff Goldblum. He went on to write and co-produce the film, "One From the Heart," directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He subsequently made his directing debut on "Windy City," which he also wrote, starring John Shea and Kate Capshaw, and directed as well as wrote Lawrence Kasdan's production of "Cross My Heart," which starred Martin Short and Annette O'Toole.
Beacon's first film, "The Commitments," received a Golden Globe nomination for best picture and won four British Academy Awards. The company's second feature was the critically-acclaimed "A Midnight Clear," starring Ethan Hawke. Other projects include "Sugar Hill," starring Wesley Snipes, David Mamet's "A Life in the Theatre," which won a Cable ACE Award for best dramatic or theatrical special, "Princess Caraboo" starring Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline, and "The Road to Wellville," directed by Alan Parker and starring Anthony Hopkins.
Bernstein also wrote and produced the Emmy Award-winning "Earth Day Special" for Warner Brothers and ABC.
Born in Hollywood, California, THOMAS A. BLISS (Executive Producer) began making 8mm films while attending his San Fernando Valley junior high school. After graduating from UCLA Film School, Bliss served for three years as Dean of Students at USC's Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, followed by a return to UCLA where he earned a law degree with a concentration on entertainment and communications law.
As an assistant director and production manager, Bliss worked on hundreds of hours of filmed live action and animated entertainment. While consulting to the American Film Institute's Sony Video Center, he pioneered the use of Betacam, High Definition TV and Digital Audio.
He was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award for the critically-acclaimed TV series Buffalo Bill, and won both an ACE Award and a Peabody Award for producing "Mother Goose Rock 'N' Rhyme" for Disney.
In 1990, Bliss joined Beacon Communications, where he serves as Executive Vice President. At Beacon, he supervised the production of "The Commitments," "A Midnight Clear," "Sugar Hill," "Princess Caraboo" and "The Road to Wellville" and executive produced "The Last Bachelor." He also produced "A Life In the Theatre," for which he received his second ACE Award.
In 1995, Bliss was named to the Board of Directors of the Directors Guild of America's Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers Training Program.
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