Dete Meserve

Dete Meserve is an award-winning and bestselling author as well as film and television executive and president of Wind Dancer Films^[1] During her tenure at Wind Dancer, she has worked on numerous television series including Home Improvement (Tim Allen). In film, she has worked on What Women Want starring Helen Hunt and Mel Gibson, Where The Heart Is starring Natalie Portman. More recently, she is a producer of Bernie starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey,^[1] executive producer of Walker Payne starring Sam Shepard and Jason Patric, executive producer of the TV series Wildest Africa for Discovery International, executive producer of As Cool As I Am, starring Claire Danes and James Marsden. In 2014, she was an executive producer of the George Lopez sitcom, "Saint George,"^[2] and producer of the thriller, The Keeping Room starring Sam Worthington, Hailee Steinfeld and Brit Marling.^[3] She is currently at work on an animated series with Craig Bartlett [Dinosaur Train, Hey Arnold!].

Wind Dancer Films was founded by Matt Williams, creator of Roseanne and Home Improvement and David McFadzean.

Meserve's bestselling novel, 'Good Sam,' is about the search for an anonymous good samaritan who's leaving $100,000 on Los Angeles doorsteps. The novel won the Readers' Favorite Gold Medal and is being developed into a film and TV series.^[4] Kirkus Reviews calls Good Sam, "a solid, feel-good romance sparked with mystery."^[5]

Meserve resides in Los Angeles and is originally a native of Chicago, Illinois. She is married to Paul Meserve, a motion picture trailer and commercial editor.

Filmography

• The Keeping Room (2014) - Producer

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