Armand Mastroianni // director / writer / producer
Armand Mastroianni has been directing feature films and television for the past twenty-five years beginning with his first feature film “He Knows You're Alone” which was released by MGM in 1980 and featured the screen debut of Tom Hanks. That film led to a string of features including “The Killing Hour” developed with William Fredkin, “The Supernaturals,” “Distortions,” “Cameron's Closet” and “Double Revenge.”
In between shooting feature films Armand Mastroianni began to produce and direct television episodic shows like Dark Shadows, Against The Law, Friday the 13 th , War of the Worlds, Man and Machine, Wes Craven's Nightmare Café, Freshman Dorm, Reasonable Doubt, Touched by an Angel and Dead Zone.
Working almost non stop he directed several highly received mini-series including Danielle Steel's The Ring and Robin Cook's Invasion. Several of his two hour movies include, The Linda McCartney Story, Dare to Love, Robin Cook's Virus, Final Run, A Mother's Revenge, One of Her Own, Deep Trouble, When No One Would Listen, Nowhere to Land, Fatal Error, First Target, First Shot and for the TBS Superstation First Daughter, which was the highest rated movie for cable to date.
More recently, he directed Gone but Not Forgotten, a four hour mini-series starring, Brooke Shields, Scott Glenn and Lou Diamond Phillips based on the best selling suspense novel by Philip Margolin for Hallmark Entertainment. This was followed by “The Celestine Prophecy” based upon the book written by James Redfield. Scheduled for a theatrical release in spring of 2006 “The Celestine Prophecy” is a story of intrigue, suspence and revelation that became a publishing phenomenon and was on the hardcover New York Times Bestseller List for 165 weeks.
After completing post production on “Celestine Prophecy” Armand Mastroianni began a series of two hour suspense films for Hallmark Entertainment starring Lea Thompson, Joe Penny, Joe Bologna, Donna Mills, and a comedy “Falling in Love With the Girl Next Door” with Patty Duke, Patrick Duffy, Shelly Long and Bruce Boxlietner followed by “Though None Go With Me” a film based on the best selling novel by Jerry Jenkins writer of the Left Behind series. In July 2006 he will begin principal photography on
A 4 hour mini series titled “Pandemic” a cautionary tale of an unknown flu that cripples Los Angeles .
Armand Mastroianni is currently developing a series for television and several feature scripts.