David Winning

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

He was making films at the age of ten with a Super 8 camera in hometown Calgary, Canada. At 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 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.

Throughout the 1990's he directed episodes of over a dozen series from kid’s shows to science-fiction. 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 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.

Sixteen years of episodic production led more recently to the Showtime/Disney western anthology [DEAD MAN'S GUN] and the television pilot and first six episodes of the UPN/Fox series Breaker High.

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, 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: THE QUEST BEGINS] 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, ', ', 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 (Stargate Atlantis) 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.

Ten Features. Nineteen series. Over Eighty episodes for Television. US/Canada Dual Citizen. 49 International Awards/6 nominations. PAST SINS for Lifetime PREMIERED JULY 2.

Filmography

Feature films

[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

Television

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

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