For Wind Dancer, Finestra has produced or executive produced Where the Heart Is, Firelight, Soul Man, Thunder Alley and his company's best known series, Home Improvement, which starred Allen as a sarcastic home-improvement host, and in turn based on Allen's stand-up comedy routines.
Most recently the firm has released Good Sam on Netflix and children's TV series Ready Jet Go!
[1] Finestra was born to Italian immigrants in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and initially attended a seminary college for two years to become a Catholic priest before transferring to Penn State University, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
In 1991, Finestra became a writer and co-executive producer for Home Improvement, capacities he filled until the series' end in 1999.
Penn State named an off campus video editing lab, The Carmen Finestra Digital Editing Lab, in his honor at Innovation Park, an off site technology hub on the University Park campus.