Dete Meserve Explained

Dete Meserve is an American film and television producer and author. Meserve is a partner of Wind Dancer Films and is producing animation TV and film projects through her company, Silver Creek Falls Entertainment.

Producing career

Meserve's list of credits span award-winning television series such as Home Improvement and Saint George with George Lopez (Executive Producer) as well as movies What Women Want, the comedy Bernie (Producer), The Keeping Room, and Where the Heart Is . In addition, she was an executive producer on What Men Want. Meserve raised the funding for and executive produced 64 episodes of the animated children's television series Ready Jet Go, which received the Common Sense Media Selection seal,[1] and airs on PBS in the US and in 120 countries around the world. She has also overseen development and production of Ready Jet Go games, merchandise, and apps including Space Explorer[2] and Space Scouts.[3] Meserve was the Executive Producer for the TV specials One Small Step (for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing) and Ready Jet Go: Back to Bortron 7.[4]

Meserve produces animation TV projects through her company, Silver Creek Falls Entertainment, where she is producer on the film Ready Jet Go! Space Camp for Universal Studios, released in July 2023.[5]

Writing career

Meserve is the author of the best-selling and multi-award-winning novel Good Sam, about the search for an anonymous Good Samaritan leaving $100,000 on Los Angeles doorsteps.[6] The novel was adapted for a Netflix original film, which received the Dove Foundation seal in 2019,[7] [8] and stars Tiya Sircar as Kate Bradley.[9] [10] Kirkus Reviews called Good Sam, "a solid, feel-good romance sparked with mystery."[11] Accolades for Good Sam include the National Indie Excellence Award, the Independent Author Network Outstanding Romance Novel Award, the Gold Medal (Fiction) from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association President's Book Awards, and the Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Award (Women's Fiction).[12] Good Sam's sequels Perfectly Good Crime (2016) and The Good Stranger (2020) each won the Living Now Book Awards for "books that change the world."[13] Her third novel, The Space Between, was published by Lake Union Publishing in July 2018 and was a Once Upon A Book Club August Selection.[14] Her non-fiction book Random Acts of Kindness was a collaboration with journalist Rachel Greco. Random Acts of Kindness places a spotlight on ordinary people from ages 9 to 100 who have found varying ways to make a difference in the world. The film adaption of Random Acts of Kindness is in development with Meserve writing the screenplay. [15] [16]

Meserve's fifth novel, The Memory Collectors, will be published in 2025.[17]

Inspired by Meserve's novel Good Sam, Rotary International has awarded the Good Sam Award since 2021, given each year for "bold and inspiring leadership in advancing human kindness, understanding, and compassion." Meserve was the inaugural recipient;[18] subsequent honorees include Jack McBrayer[19] and LeVar Burton.[20]

Memberships

Meserve is a member of the organizations Producers Guild of America,[21] the Writers Guild of America, the Television Academy, and the Writers Guild of Canada.[22] [23]

Speaking engagements

Meserve's speaking engagements include events with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media,[24] the Romance Writers of America,[25] the Palm Springs Writers Guild,[26] the Southern California Writers Association,[27] the Bentonville Film Festival, Innovate Beverly Hills, City Club of Los Angeles, Women in Entertainment, and Kidscreen.[28] She is an instructor for Rosemont College's Creative Writing MFA program.[29]

With Ready, Jet, Go!, Meserve will be the host of the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse in Dallas, Texas, alongside Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Amy Mainzer, in partnership with NOAA, NASA, and NSF.[30] [31]

Personal life

Originally a native of Chicago, Illinois, Meserve lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.[32]

Bibliography

Fiction

Non-Fiction

Filmography

Films

Television

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ready Jet Go! TV Review Common Sense Media . 2023-07-07 . www.commonsensemedia.org . en.
  2. Web site: Ready Jet Go! Space Explorer Mobile Downloads PBS KIDS . 2023-07-07 . pbskids.org.
  3. Web site: 2020-10-04 . Ready Jet Go! Space Scouts . 2023-07-07 . App Store . en-US.
  4. Web site: 2021-06-28 . Ready Jet Go! MOVIE Back to Bortron 7 PBS KIDS . 2023-07-08 . WPBS Serving Northern New York and Eastern Ontario . en-US.
  5. Web site: Malonepublished . Michael . 2023-06-05 . PBS Kids Set To Debut Trio of Summer Movies Based on Popular Series . 2023-07-07 . Broadcasting Cable . en.
  6. Web site: How Dete Meserve Found Bestsellerdom the DIY Way . 2023-07-06 . NY Book Editors . en.
  7. Web site: Good Sam . 2023-07-07 . Dove.org . en-US.
  8. Web site: Sahms . Jacob . 2019-05-23 . The Work of Good Sam's Dete Meserve Spreads Like Miracles Do . 2023-07-07 . Dove.org . en-US.
  9. Web site: 'The Good Place' Actress Tiya Sircar to Star in Netflix Film 'Good Sam'. 20 September 2018.
  10. Web site: May 01 . Lexi Vollero . EDT . 2019 at 04:36 PM . Watch Netflix's trailer for uplifting mystery 'Good Sam' . 2023-07-06 . EW.com . en.
  11. Web site: GOOD SAM | Kirkus Reviews.
  12. Web site: Good Sam . 2023-07-07 . Dete Meserve, Award-winning and Bestselling author . en-US.
  13. Web site: 2020 Winners . 2023-07-07 . www.livingnowawards.com.
  14. Web site: 2023-06-29 . Adult 2018 . 2023-07-07 . Once Upon a Book Club . en.
  15. Web site: 'Random Acts of Kindness' includes local tales . 2023-07-09 . Lansing State Journal . en-US.
  16. Web site: Nordstrom . David Sturt and Todd . If You Want Results, Don't Avoid Drama, Create It . 2023-07-09 . Forbes . en.
  17. Web site: About Dete Meserve, Award-winning and Bestselling author . 2024-03-02 . Dete Meserve, Award-winning and Bestselling author . en-US.
  18. Web site: 2021-11-07 . Rotary gala highlights transformative impact of good works . 2023-07-09 . KTLA . en-US.
  19. Web site: Good Sam Awards honoring Jack McBrayer Rotary LA5 . 2023-07-07 . rotaryla5.org.
  20. Web site: Good Sam Award . Rotary LA5.
  21. Web site: Hull . Aleisha . Dete Meserve . 2023-07-07 . Produced By Conference . en-US.
  22. Web site: Meet – Accomplished Film and TV Producer/Creator and Honorary LA5 Member Dete Meserve Rotary LA5 . 2023-07-07 . rotaryla5.org.
  23. Web site: Hull . Aleisha . Dete Meserve . 2023-07-07 . Produced By Conference . en-US.
  24. Web site: Global Storytelling: Portrayals of Women and Girls . 2023-07-07 . Geena Davis Institute.
  25. Web site: Workshops by Date and Time . 2023-07-07 . www.rwa.org.
  26. Web site: Palm Springs Writers Guild - Insider Workshop: EXCLUSIVE EVENT "Book to Screen" with writer/producer Dete Meserve . 2023-07-07 . palmspringswritersguild.org.
  27. Web site: Meetings – Southern California Writers Association . 2024-03-02 . en.
  28. Web site: Meet – Accomplished Film and TV Producer/Creator and Honorary LA5 Member Dete Meserve Rotary LA5 . 2023-07-07 . rotaryla5.org.
  29. Web site: MFA in Creative Writing Rosemont - Creative Writing - Graduate - Academics - Rosemont College . 2023-07-07 . www.rosemont.edu.
  30. Web site: Total Solar Eclipse . 2024-03-02 . National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service . en.
  31. Web site: Facebook . 2024-03-02 . www.facebook.com.
  32. Web site: About Dete Meserve, Award-winning and Bestselling author . 2023-07-07 . Dete Meserve, Award-winning and Bestselling author . en-US.
  33. Web site: Ready Jet Go! producer sees festivals on the horizon . 2023-07-06.