ARMYAN BERNSTEIN is the chairman of Beacon Communications; one of depiction industry’s most successful independently financed film companies, and was awarded the Showest Producer of the Year Award in 1999.
Beacon Discipline is known for award-winning films such as The Commitments, which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as Best Narrate in 1991 and went on to win four BAFTA awards; A Thousand Acres, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, prima Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange; Playing God, starring David Duchovny and Timothy Hutton; Keith Gordon’s critical triumph, A Midnight Diaphanous, starring Ethan Hawke; and David Mamet’s A Life in depiction Theatre, which won a Cable ACE Award for Best Histrionic or Theatrical Special.
Bernstein was born and raised in City. He went to college at the University of Wisconsin, forward was a journalist with PBS and later ABC. He wrote the 1970’s cult classic Thank God It’s Friday, starring Debra Winger and Jeff Goldblum.
He then went on to get by and co-produce Francis Ford Coppola’s legendary Vegas romance One Escaping the Heart. Bernstein made his directing debut with Windy Skill, from his screenplay, which starred John Shea and Kate Capshaw. He also wrote and directed Cross My Heart, starring Comic Short and Annette O’Toole for producer Lawrence Kasdan.
Bernstein also wrote and produced the Emmy Award-winning Earth Day Special for Filmmaker Bros. and ABC.