David Winning

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David Winning
Winning in 2003
Born	May 8, 1961 (1961-05-08) (age 48) Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Occupation	director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
Years active	1976 – present
Official website

David Winning (born May 8, 1961) is a Canadian-born and U.S. dual citizen film and television director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and occasional actor, who primarily focuses on science fiction.

Biography

Winning was born in Calgary, Alberta. He became a dual citizen of the US and Canada in 2003 and lives in Los Angeles. He was making films at age ten with a Super 8 camera in Calgary. In 1979, he received a Canada Council grant to make his first sixteen millimeter drama Sequence,^[1] and expanded the plotline into his first feature film Storm, produced in the summer of 1983 and filmed in Bragg Creek, Alberta. It took four years to complete and was released by Golan-Globus' Cannon Films International and Warner Home Video in 1988. A December 11, 1989 LA Times review called the film “taut, ambitious and darkly comic”.^[2]

At 27, he got work as director on the Canadian-produced series Friday the 13th: The Series for Paramount Television and for this received three Gemini Award nominations.^[3] His second feature followed in 1992. Entitled Killer Image, the mystery-thriller starred Michael Ironside and M. Emmet Walsh. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s he directed 13 movies and episodes of twenty series, including Stargate: Atlantis^[4] and Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.^[5]

According to the current Avatar issue of Sci Fi Magazine, February 2010, he is slated to direct the new movie "Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage" to star Patrick Stewart^[6][7]

Awards

Winning has won twenty-two first place golds/platinums between 1994-2008 at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival^[8]. He won the 1995 Gold Hugo Award and two Silver Plaques from the Chicago International Film Festival, and four national Gemini Award nominations for Director/Dramatic Series^[9]. In 2002 he accepted the first national team award from the Directors Guild of Canada for TV series Drama.^[10] At the 2008 Big Island Film Festival in Hawaii, Winning won a Golden Honu award for the "Filmmaker" category, and Swamp Devil won "Best Foreign Feature".^[11]

Selected filmography

Films

• Swamp Devil
• Something Beneath
• Merlin: The Quest Begins
• Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
• One of Our Own
• Storm
• Black Swarm^[12]

Television

• Blood Ties
• Dead Man's Gun
• Breaker High
• Goosebumps
• Sweet Valley High
• Are You Afraid of the Dark?
• Matrix
• Twice In A Lifetime
• Friday the 13th: The Series
• Call of the Wild
• Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
• Naturally, Sadie
• Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict
• Body & Soul
• Stargate: Atlantis
• Dinotopia
• Dinosapien

References

1. ^ "Calgary Magazine Freeze Frame, September 1987, by: Linda Kupecek, "The Winning Way"". http://www.davidwinning.com/freeze_1.jpg. 
2. ^ "LA Times review by Kevin Thomas, December 11, 1989". http://www.davidwinning.com/storm_hit.jpg. 
3. ^ "1989, 1990 Gemini Awards 3 nominations". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. http://www.academy.ca/hist/history.cfm?nname=David+Winning&winonly=0&awards=0&rtype=1&curstep=4&submit.x=65&submit.y=8. 
4. ^ "SYFY Channel’s official Stargate: Atlantis site for “Childhood’s End”". http://www.syfy.com/atlantis/episodes/episodes.php?seas=1&ep=0106&act=3. 
5. ^ "The Sci Fi World.Net Interview with David Winning, June 2005". http://www.thescifiworld.net/interviews/david_winning_01.htm. 
6. ^ "Pre-production Begins on Middle Eastern Fairy Tale Sinbad The Fifth Voyage". News Net Publisher July 16, 2009. http://www.netnewspublisher.com/pre-production-begins-on-middle-eastern-fairy-tale-sinbad-the-fifth-voyage/. 
7. ^ "IMDB listing for Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage (2010)". IMDB.com. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403862/. 
8. ^ "Worldfest Houston Winners Lists Archives: 1994, 1995, 1997, 2001-2008". Worldfest Houston International Film Festival Official Site. http://www.worldfest.org/PAGES/winners.htm. 
9. ^ "1989, 1990, 1997 Gemini Awards 4 nominations". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. http://www.academy.ca/hist/history.cfm?nname=David+Winning&winonly=0&awards=0&rtype=1&curstep=4&submit.x=65&submit.y=8. 
10. ^ "2002 DGC Team Awards TV Series Drama for “Moonshine Over Harlem”". DGC. http://www.dgc.ca/awards/flashv1/2002.html. Retrieved November 19, 2009. 
11. ^ "Success Stories". Big Island Film Festival. http://www.bigislandfilmfestival.com/success/stories.htm. Retrieved October 30, 2009. 
12. ^ "RHI official site Black Swarm". RHI Films. http://www.rhitv.com/Movie.aspx?id=79. Retrieved December 25, 2009. 

External links

• Official website
• David Winning at the Internet Movie Database
• David Winning at TV.com