David Winning
Film Director David Winning.
Born	May 8, 1961 (1961-05-08) (age 46) Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Occupation	director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
Official site	http://www.DavidWinning.com

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Biography

He is mainly known for his work on Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, MGM’s Stargate: Atlantis, ABC’s Dinotopia and the HBO thriller Exception to the Rule, starring Kim Cattrall and Eric McCormack. Winning became a dual Citizen of the US and Canada in 2003. He was making films at the age of ten with a Super 8 camera in hometown Calgary, Canada. At age 18, he got a Canada Council grant in 1979 to make his first sixteen millimeter drama Sequence, and expanded the plotline into his first feature film Storm, produced in the summer of 1983 and filmed in the forests and hills of Bragg Creek, Alberta. The debut feature took four years to complete and was released by Golan-Globus' Cannon Films International and Warner Home Video in 1988. Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American scriptwriter and producer. ... Gene Roddenberrys Andromeda is an American science fiction television series, based on unused material by Gene Roddenberry developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced posthumously by his widow, Majel Roddenberry. ... Dinotopia: Land Apart From Time by James Gurney Dinotopia is a fictitious utopian place created by author and illustrator James Gurney. ... Kim Victoria Cattrall (born August 21, 1956, in Liverpool, England) is an English-born Canadian actress. ... Eric McCormack (born on April 18, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian actor of Scottish and Cherokee Canadian descent. ... Super 8 can refer to: Super 8 Motels, a national motel chain Super 8mm film, a form of film often used for home movies, most popular in the 60s and 70s This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share... The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is an agency of the Government of Canada created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Bragg Creek is a designated place (an unincorporated hamlet) in southern Alberta, 30 kilometres west of Calgary on Bragg Creek (along Highway 8). ... Golan-Globus produced a distinct line of low-budget action films from 1979 to 1989. ... Golan-Globus produced a distinct line of low-budget action films from 1979 to 1989. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

At 27, he landed directing gigs on the Canadian-produced series Friday the 13th: The Series for CBS Paramount Television; for this television debut he received three Gemini Award nominations. His second feature followed in 1992 with Killer Image, a photographic mystery-thriller starring Michael Ironside and M. Emmet Walsh. Friday the 13th: The Series was a television series that ran for three seasons, from September 1987 to May of 1990. ... CBS Paramount Television (formerly Desilu Productions, Paramount Television, among other companies) is an American television production/distribution company that was formed on January 17, 2006 by CBS Corporation merging Paramount Television and CBS Productions. ... The Gemini Awards are an annual awards ceremony in Canada. ... Michael Ironside (born Frederick Reginald Ironside[1] on February 12, 1950) is a Canadian character actor. ... Michael Emmet Walsh (born March 22, 1935 in Ogdensburg, New York) is an American character actor who has appeared in over 100 film and television productions. ...

Throughout the 1990's he directed more movies and episodes of over a dozen series from kid’s shows to science-fiction. M. Night Shyamalan has cited Winning's episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, The Tale of the Dream Girl, as the inspiration for The Sixth Sense. [1] His episodic work has received international awards including fourteen first place golds overall at the 1992-2006 Houston Film Festival/WorldFest, the 1995 Gold Hugo Award and two Silver Hugos from the Chicago International Film Festival, and Four national Gemini Award nominations for Best Director/Dramatic Series. In 2002 he received a National award from the Directors Guild of Canada for outstanding achievement in television drama. He was nominated again for this award in 2006. Manoj Nelliattu Shyamalan (born August 6, 1970), known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan , //, is an Academy Award nominated screenwriter and director, who also performs smaller roles in his own movies. ... Are You Afraid of the Dark? can refer to: Are You Afraid of the Dark?, television series Are You Afraid of the Dark?, novel by Sidney Sheldon This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For the ability sometimes referred to as sixth sense, see Extra-sensory perception. ... WorldFest is an annual film festival held in Houston, Texas. ... The 2005 Hugo Award with base designed by Deb Kosiba. ... The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival that is presented by Cinema/Chicago. ... The Gemini Awards are an annual awards ceremony in Canada. ... The Directors Guild of Canada is a Canadian labour union, founded in 1962, which represents more than 3,700 professionals from 48 different occupations in the Canadian film and television industry. ...

Sixteen years of episodic production led more recently to the Showtime/Disney western anthology Dead Man's Gun, the USA Network series Matrix with Carrie-Anne Moss (unrelated to the film of the same name), and the television pilot and first six episodes of the UPN/Fox series Breaker High with Ryan Gosling. Showtime is a subscription television brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States. ... Disney may refer to: The Walt Disney Company and its divisions, including Walt Disney Pictures. ... Carrie-Anne Moss (born August 21, 1967) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Trinity in The Matrix trilogy. ... A television pilot is a test episode of an intended television series. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) was a television network in over 200 markets in the United States. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ... Breaker High was a short-lived Canadian television series that ran from 1997 to 1998. ... Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian actor from London, Ontario. ...

In the summer of 1996 he re-teamed with Michael Ironside and Frederic Forrest for the Universal Studios video military thriller One of Our Own. His last theatrical release, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie for 20th Century Fox, was the fourth highest selling video in the U.S. in August 1997 (Billboard magazine). Michael Ironside (born Frederick Reginald Ironside[1] on February 12, 1950) is a Canadian character actor. ... Frederic Forrest (born December 23, 1936 in Waxahachie, Texas) is an American actor. ... This article is about the American media conglomerate. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ...

Winning spent the fall of 1997 shooting in Scotland with Jason Connery on the Merlin project. Next he directed the Patrick Duffy/Pam Dawber thriller Don’t look behind You which premiered to two million viewers on the Fox Family Channel. Most recently he has divided his time between features and episodic work on Twice in a Lifetime, Earth: Final Conflict, Stargate Atlantis, Andromeda and ABC's Dinotopia; location shooting for three months in Budapest, Hungary. His recent Stargate: Atlantis Season One episode for MGM, Childhood's End won 3 international awards for Direction in 2005; New York, Houston and Chicago. He just finished Past Sins for Lifetime Television with Lauralee Bell and the television pilot and multiple episodes of Dinosapien for BBC and Discovery Channel. This article is about the country. ... Jason Joseph Connery (born January 11, 1963) is an English actor. ... Patrick G. Duffy (born March 17, 1949 in Townsend, Montana) is an American television actor. ... Pam Dawber (born October 18, 1951 in Farmington Hills, Michigan) is an American actress. ... Fox Family was a cable channel in the United States in the 1990s that aired shows from Fox Kids programming block such as Storytime with Thomas and The Three Friends and Jerry. ... Twice in a Lifetime was a television series from 1999 to 2001. ... Earth: Final Conflict is a science fiction television series posthumously created by Gene Roddenberry. ... Stargate Atlantis is an American-Canadian science fiction television program, part of the Stargate franchise owned by MGM. Developed by longtime SG-1 producers Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, it is a spin-off from the television series Stargate SG-1. ... Andromeda may be: Andromeda (mythology), the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, wife of Perseus Andromeda Galaxy Andromeda (constellation), in which the Andromeda Galaxy is located Andromeda polifolia or Bog-rosemary, a plant of the heath family Andromeda (TV series) a science fiction television series Mount Andromeda in Canada and the... Dinotopia: Land Apart From Time by James Gurney Dinotopia is a fictitious utopian place created by author and illustrator James Gurney. ... For other uses, see Budapest (disambiguation). ... Childhoods End is an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Lauralee Kristen Bell (born December 22, 1968) is an American soap opera actress. ... A television pilot is a test episode of an intended television series. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Discovery Channel is a cable and satellite TV channel founded by John Hendricks which is distributed by Discovery Communications. ...

Past Sins for Lifetime Television premiered in July 2006. More recently Winning directed Kevin Sorbo, Robert Englund, and Bruce Dern in several monster movies for the Sci Fi Channel (United States) and Hallmark Entertainment (RHI Films New York) and episodes of the new Vampire series "Blood Ties". This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Kevin Sorbo (born September 24, 1958) is an American actor probably best known for the role of Hercules on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Captain Dylan Hunt in Andromeda. ... Robert Barton Englund (born June 6th, 1949), is an American actor from Glendale, California. ... ‹ The template below is being considered for deletion. ... SCI FI (originally Sci-Fi Channel, sometimes rendered SCI FI Channel when part of a longer phrase) is an American cable television channel, launched on September 24, 1992, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal programming. ... Hallmark Cards, a privately owned company based in Kansas City, Missouri, is the largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States. ... Blood Ties is episode 13 of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ...

Selected filmography

Feature films

David Winning directing Peter Strauss series

• BLACK SWARM (Robert Englund) SCI FI CHANNEL/RHI FILMS (HALLMARK NY)
• SOMETHING BENEATH (Kevin Sorbo, Natalie Brown, Peter MacNeill) SCI FI CHANNEL/RHI FILMS (HALLMARK NY)
• PAST SINS (Lauralee Bell, Rebecca Jenkins) LIFETIME/MARVISTA AIRED JULY 2.
• Mary Higgins Clark’s HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU’RE SLEEPING Pax/NBC
• DON’T LOOK BEHIND YOU (Patrick Duffy, Pam Dawber) FOX FAMILY CHANNEL
• MERLIN: THE QUEST BEGINS (Jason Connery, Deborah Moore) SCOTLAND/USA
• TURBO: A POWER RANGERS MOVIE (Fox Sequel PR2) 20TH CENTURY FOX
• EXCEPTION TO THE RULE (Sean Young, Eric McCormack, Kim Cattrall) HBO Won FIRST PLACE GOLD –BEST THRILLER HOUSTON FILM FESTIVAL
• PROFILE FOR MURDER (Lance Henriksen, Joan Severance) HBO/LION’S GATE
• ONE OF OUR OWN (Frederic Forrest, Michael Ironside) UNIVERSAL
• KILLER IMAGE (M. Emmet Walsh, Michael Ironside) PARAMOUNT also co-WRITER and co-PRODUCER
• STORM (David Palfy, Stan Kane) CANNON/WARNER also WRITER and PRODUCER

David Winning and William Shatner at the 2006 FanExpo Toronto

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Television

• BLOOD TIES Kaleidoscope/Insight Film (multiples)
• DEAD MAN'S GUN Disney/Showtime
• NEON RIDER Atlantis
• BREAKER HIGH UPN/Fox (pilot & multiples/7 episodes)
• GOOSEBUMPS Fox
• STREET JUSTICE Cannell (2 seasons/7 episodes)
• SWEET VALLEY HIGH Fox/UPN (4 seasons/11 episodes)
• AFRAID OF THE DARK? Nickelodeon (4 seasons/10 episodes)
• NIGHTMAN Tribune (multiples)
• MATRIX USA Network
• TWICE IN A LIFETIME Pax TV/CTV (2 seasons/10 episodes)
• FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE SERIES Paramount (3 episodes)
• CALL OF THE WILD Animal Planet
• Gene Roddenberry’s ANDROMEDA Tribune (4 seasons/13 episodes)
• NATURALLY, SADIE DISNEY CHANNEL (4 episodes)
• Gene Roddenberry’s EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT (7 episodes)
• BODY & SOUL PAX (Peter Strauss) (multiples)
• STARGATE: ATLANTIS MGM/SCIFI CHANNEL
• DINOTOPIA ABC/HALLMARK (multiples) HUNGARY /(4 episodes)
• DINOSAPIEN BBC/DISCOVERY CHANNEL (Pilot and multiples/4 episodes)

External links

• David Winning at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Website
• David Winning New York Times Bio
• David Winning at MySpace.com
• David Winning at YouTube.com