About Us: Advisors

ARMAND MASTROIANNI - Media Advisor

- Director - The Celestine Prophecy
Armand has been directing feature films and television for the past 25 years beginning with his first -- 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 long string of features including The Killing Hour, developed with William Friedkin, The Supernaturals, Distortions, Cameron's Closet, and Double Revenge.
 
In between shooting feature films, Armand Mastroianni began to direct television episodic programs, including Touched by an Angel, Dark Shadows, Against the Law, Friday the 13th, War of the Worlds, Reasonable Doubt, and Dead Zone. Working almost non-stop, Armand has directed several highly received miniseries, including Danielle Steel's The Ring and Robin Cook's Invasion. His two-hour movies include The Linda McCartney Story, Dare to Love, Robin Cook's Virus, Final Run, Deep Trouble, 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.
 
Prior to directing The Celestine Prophecy, he directed Gone but Not Forgotten, a four-hour miniseries starring Brooke Shields, Scott Glenn, and Lou Diamond Phillips based on the novel by Philip Margolin, for Hallmark Entertainment.
 
Since filming The Celestine Prophecy, Armand has directed two Jane Doe mystery movies for television -- Till Death Do Us Part and Now You See It, Now You Don't, starring Lea Thompson and Joe Penny. His most recent project is directing a romantic comedy for the Hallmark Channel.