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David Winning
Film Director
Born	May 8, 1961 (1961-05-08) (age 48) 6' 4" Calgary, Alberta, Canada Dual Citizen US
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. Although Winning has worked in numerous film and TV genres, his name is most commonly associated with science fiction.

[edit] 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 the age of ten with a Super 8 camera in Calgary. At 18, he got a Canada Council grant in 1979^{[citation needed]} 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. It took four years to complete and was released by Golan-Globus' Cannon Films International and Warner Home Video in 1988.

At 27, he got work as director on the Canadian-produced series Friday the 13th: The Series for Paramount Television; for this television debut he received three Gemini Award nominations.^{[citation needed]} His second feature followed in 1992 with Killer Image, a plot-twisting photographic mystery-thriller starring Michael Ironside and veteran character actor M. Emmet Walsh. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s he directed more movies, as well as episodes of over twenty series.

[edit] Awards

Winning was awarded twenty-two first place golds/platinums between 1992-2008 at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival.^{[citation needed]} He won the 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.^{[citation needed]} At the 2008 Big Island Film Festival in Hawaii, Winning was won a Golden Honu award for the "Filmmaker" category, and Swamp Devil won "Best Foreign Feature".^[1]

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Films

• Swamp Devil
• Black Swarm
• Something Beneath
• Merlin: The Quest Begins
• Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
• One of Our Own
• Killer Image
• Storm

[edit] 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

[edit] References

1. ^ "Success Stories". Big Island Film Festival. http://www.bigislandfilmfestival.com/success/stories.htm. Retrieved October 30, 2009. 

[edit] External links

• Official website
• David Winning at the Internet Movie Database