David Winning

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David Winning
Image:Dwin006.jpg Film Director David Winning.
Born	May 8 1961 (1961-05-08) (age 48) Image:Flag of Canada.svg Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Occupation	director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
Official site	http://www.DavidWinning.com

David Winning (born May 8, 1961 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian-born film and television director.

1 Biography
2 Selected filmography
3 External links

[edit] 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 and lives in Los Angeles. 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.

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 plot-twisting photographic mystery-thriller starring Michael Ironside and M. Emmet Walsh.

Throughout the 1990's and 2000's he directed more movies and episodes of over twenty series from kid’s shows to westerns 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 seventeen first place golds/platinums overall at the 1992-2007 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.

Nineteen years of episodic production has included 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.

In the summer of 1996 he re-teamed with Michael Ironside and Frederic Forrest for the Universal Studios 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).

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. More recently he has divided 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 Stargate: Atlantis Season One episode for MGM, Childhood's End won 3 international awards for Direction in 2005; New York, Houston and Chicago. In 2006 he finished Past Sins for Lifetime Television with Lauralee Bell and the television pilot and multiple episodes of Dinosapien for BBC and Discovery Channel.