David Winning
| David Winning | |
|---|---|
 Winning in 2003 | |
| Born |
May 8, 1961 Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Citizenship | United States, Canadian |
| Occupation | director, producer, screenwriter, and actor |
| Years active | 1976 – present |
| Website |
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David Winning (born May 8, 1961) is a Canadian and American 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, thrillers and drama.
Life and career
Winning was born in Calgary, Alberta.[1] 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 1979, he received a Canada Council grant to make the sixteen millimeter drama Sequence,[2] and expanded the plotline into his first feature film Storm, filmed in the summer of 1983 in Bragg Creek, Alberta. It was shot with money that his father had set aside for film school and was screened at Cannes.[1] It took four years to finish 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".[3]
At 27, he directed episodes of Friday the 13th: The Series for Paramount and received three Gemini Award nominations.[4] His second feature Killer Image followed in 1992; the mystery-thriller starred Michael Ironside and M. Emmet Walsh. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s he directed 17 movies and episodes of twenty-seven series, including Stargate: Atlantis,[5] ABC's Dinotopia filmed in Budapest, Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and four seasons on Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.[6] He directed Kim Cattrall, Sean Young, and Eric McCormack in the award-winning thriller Exception to the Rule. His biggest budget studio movie to date is the $29-million kids sci-fi action sequel Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie for 20th Century Fox.[7] He directed seven episodes of the Cannell police series Street Justice with Carl Weathers.[8] Winning said “Episodic TV gets no respect” in a March 2000 Toronto Star interview.[9] He directed a 16-year-old Ryan Gosling in the Pilot and seven episodes of the Paramount UPN kid series Breaker High.
According to the February 2010 Avatar issue of Sci Fi Magazine, he was slated to direct the movie Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage with Patrick Stewart.[10] He directed episodes of Space Channel's comedy/horror series Todd and the Book of Pure Evil and Lost Girl[1] for SYFY Channel and Showcase—and supervised and directed the far north webisode series YUKONIC online in 2011. He is directing XIII: The Series with Stuart Townsend, produced by Roger Avary for French Canal +, and multiple episodes of the live audience multi-camera sitcom Mr. Young for The Disney Channel.
Awards
Winning has won the 1995 Gold Hugo Award and two Silver Plaques from the Chicago International Film Festival, and four national Gemini Award nominations for Best Director/Dramatic Series.[11] In 2002 he accepted the first national team award from the Directors Guild of Canada Best TV series Drama for Twice in a Lifetime and was nominated again in 2006.[12] His episode of Stargate: Atlantis, "Childhood’s End", won three awards for Directing; New York, Houston and Chicago in 2005. In April 2008, Winning won two Directing awards at the Houston Film Festival/WorldFest in Texas and a Special Jury Award for his work on the Lifetime Television vampire series Blood Ties.
2008 Hawaii Career Award and festival screenings
Winning was honored at the 2008 Big Island Film Festival in Hawaii.[13] He received a Special Career award on May 17, 2008 with a reception in his honor in Waikōloa Village. Swamp Devil also won the Golden Honu for Best Foreign feature film. A doublebill of his two monster movies was presented at the outdoor festival; Swamp Devil starring Bruce Dern and Black Swarm starring Robert Englund. The first in his trilogy was Something Beneath with Kevin Sorbo in 2007. Black Swarm also screened at the Boston Film Festival on Friday the 13th of June, 2008. Both films were produced in Montréal by Muse Entertainment for the SYFY Channel, New York City.
Filmography
| Film director | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Cast — Notes | |
| 1987 | Storm | David Palffy, Stan Kane debut feature film | |
| 1992 | Killer Image | Michael Ironside, M. Emmet Walsh, John Pyper-Ferguson | |
| 1996 | Profile For Murder | Lance Henriksen, Joan Severance | |
| 1997 | Exception to the Rule | Kim Cattrall, Sean Young, Eric McCormack, William Devane | |
| 1997 | Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie | 20th Century Fox | |
| 1998 | Merlin: The Quest Begins | Jason Connery, Deborah Moore, Gareth Thomas, Graham McTavish filmed in Peebles, Scotland | |
| 1998 | One of Our Own | Michael Ironside, Currie Graham, Frederic Forrest, Peta Wilson | |
| 1999 | Don’t Look Behind You | Patrick Duffy, Pam Dawber based on a book by Lois Duncan | |
| 2003 | He Sees You When You’re Sleeping | Erika Eleniak, Cameron Bancroft, Udo Kier based on a book by Mary Higgins Clark | |
| 2006 | Past Sins | Lauralee Bell, Rebecca Jenkins | |
| 2007 | Something Beneath | Kevin Sorbo, Natalie Brown, Peter MacNeill, Brendan Beiser | |
| 2008 | Black Swarm[14] | Robert Englund, Sarah Allen, Sebastien Roberts | |
| 2009 | Swamp Devil | Bruce Dern, Cindy Sampson, Nicolas Wright | |
| 2014 | The Town That Came A-Courtin’ | Lauren Holly, Valerie Harper based on a book by Ronda Rich | |
| 2014 | The Tree That Saved Christmas | Lacey Chabert, Corey Sevier | |
| 2014 | Mutant World | Kim Coates, Ashanti, Holly Deveaux, Amber Marshall | |
| 2014 | Paper Angels | Josie Bissett, Matthew Settle based on a book by Jimmy Wayne | |
| 2015 | Cradle of Lies | Nicole de Boer, Gina Holden | |
| 2015 | Under Fire | Andrea Bowen, Anja Savcic | |
| 2015 | The Magic Stocking | Bridget Regan, Victor Webster | |
| 2016 | Unleashing Mr. Darcy | Cindy Busby, Ryan Paevey, Frances Fisher based on a book by Teri Wilson | |
| 2016 | The Rooftop Christmas Tree | Michelle Morgan, Tim Reid based on a book by Landria Onkka | |
| 2016 | The Convenient Groom | Vanessa Marcil, David Sutcliffe based on a book by Denise Hunter | |
| 2016 | A December Bride | Jessica Lowndes, Daniel Lissing based on a book by Denise Hunter | |
| 2016 | Infidelity in Suburbia | Sarah Butler, Marcus Rosner | |
| 2016 | The Mistletoe Promise | Jaime King, Luke Macfarlane based on a book by Richard Paul Evans | |
| 2017 | Second Time Around | Billy Baldwin, Stefanie von Pfetten | |
| Television director | |||
| Year | Series | Company—Cast —Episodes | |
| 1988 | Friday the 13th: The Series | (1988–90) TV Series Paramount Season 2, Episode 11 – Aired: 1/21/1989 "Sweetest Sting" Season 2, Episode 16 – Aired: 2/25/1989 "Scarlet Cinema" Season 3, Episode 17 – Aired: 5/5/1990 "Jack In the Box" | |
| 1992 | Neon Rider | Season 3, Episode 3 – "Straight Home" Martin Cummins | |
| 1992 | Street Justice | (1991–92) TV Series 7 episodes Stephen J. Cannell Studios Carl Weathers, Eric McCormack Season 1, Episode 13 – Aired: 1/18/1992 "Parenthood" Marcus Chong Season 1, Episode 21 – Aired: 5/9/1992 "Catcher" Jennifer Dale Season 2, Episode 6 – Aired: 11/7/1992 "Country Justice" Colin Raye Season 2, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/21/1992 "Innocent Blood" R. Lee Ermey Season 2, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/28/1992 "Angel of Death" Pat Harrington Jr. Season 2, Episode 13 – Aired: 1/30/1993 "A Sense of Duty" Carrie-Anne Moss Season 2, Episode 19 – Aired: 5/8/1993 "Hello... Again" Alex Datcher | |
| 1993 | Are You Afraid of the Dark? | (1993–1995) TV Series 10 Episodes Nickelodeon Season 2, Episode 3 - Aired: 07/03/93 "Locker 22" Season 2, Episode 5 - Aired: 07/17/93 "Dream Machine" Season 2, Episode 10 - Aired: 08/28/93 "Shiny Red Bicycle" Season 3, Episode 3 - Aired: 01/22/94 "Watcher's Woods" Jewel Staite Season 3, Episode 5 - Aired: 02/05/94 "Dollmaker" Season 3, Episode 10 - Aired: 03/26/94 "Dream Girl" Andrea Nemeth, Fab Filippo Season 4, Episode 2 - Aired: 10/08/94 "Long Ago Locket" Will Friedle Season 4, Episode 6 - Aired: 11/05/94 "Quiet Librarian" Season 4, Episode 12 - Aired: 01/14/95 "Unfinished Painting" Jewel Staite Season 5, Episode 6 - Aired: 11/11/95 "C7" Colin Ferguson | |
| 1993 | Matrix | USA Network Nick Mancuso, Carrie-Anne Moss, Daniel Kash, David Lander Season 1, Episode 3 - Air Date: 03/15/93 "False Witness" | |
| 1995 | Sweet Valley High | (1995–97) TV Series 11 episodes Fox Network aka "Francine Pascal's 'Sweet Valley High'" Brittany Daniel, Cynthia Daniel Season 2, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/4/1995 "Reading, Writing, Rescue" Season 2, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/8/1996 "Totally Cueless" Season 3, Episode 1 – Aired: 8/26/1996 "Much Ado About Nachos" Season 3, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/2/1996 "Shred Reckoning" Season 3, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/9/1996 "Imperfectly Fit" Season 3, Episode 6 – Aired: 9/30/1996 "Mondo Chill" Season 4, Episode 13 – Aired: 10/1/1997 "Skiing is Believing" Season 4, Episode 16 – Aired: 10/6/1997 "Down By Whitelaw Pt.1" Season 4, Episode 17 – Aired: 10/7/1997 "Down By Whitelaw Pt.2" Season 4, Episode 18 – Aired: 10/8/1997 "Swingtime" Season 4, Episode 22 – Aired: 10/14/1997 "Animal Rights & Wrongs" Final episode | |
| 1995 | Goosebumps | Season 1, Episode 14 – Aired: 2/2/1996 "... It Came From Beneath the Sink" Amanda Tapping, Katharine Isabelle | |
| 1997 | Dead Man's Gun | Disney/Showtime Season 1, Episode 8 – Aired: 8/13/1997 "The Black Widow" Daphne Zuniga, Paul Johansson | |
| 1997 | Breaker High | Paramount pilot and six episodes Ryan Gosling, Tyler Labine Season 1, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/15/1997 "Sun Ahso Rises" Season 1, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/16/1997 "Pranks For The Memories" Season 1, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/17/1997 "Mayhem on The Orient Distress" Season 1, Episode 5 – Aired: 9/19/1997 "Kenya Dig It" Season 1, Episode 7 – Aired: 9/23/1997 "Radio Daze" Season 1, Episode 9 – Aired: 9/25/1997 "Belly of the Beast" Season 1, Episode 10 – Aired: 9/26/1997 "Rooming Violations" | |
| 1998 | NightMan | Tribune Entertainment Season 2, Episode 5 – Aired: 11/8/1998 "Fear City" Kim Coates Season 2, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/29/1998 "The People's Choice" Kim Coates Season 2, Episode 19 – Aired: 5/2/1999 "Gore" Richard Side, Andrew Bryniarski | |
| 1999 | Twice in a Lifetime | Pax TV/CTV Al Waxman, Gordie Brown, Paul Popowich Season 1, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/10/1999 "Match Made in Heaven" Patrick Duffy Season 1, Episode 18 – Aired: 2/16/2000 "Old Flames" Michelle Phillips Season 1, Episode 19 – Aired: 3/1/2000 "Pride and Prejudice" Lance Kinsey Season 1, Episode 21 – Aired: 5/10/2000 "The Trouble With Harry" Jere Burns, Brent Carver Season 2, Episode 1 – Aired: 8/20/2000 "Fallen Angel"/Second Season Premiere Bruce Boxleitner Season 2, Episode 2 – Aired: 8/30/2000 "Hard Knock Life" Markie Post Season 2, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/6/2000 "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" Lesley Ann Warren Season 2, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/11/2000 "War of the Poseys" Martin Mull Season 2, Episode 16 – Aired: 2/7/2001 "Moonshine Over Harlem" Earle Hyman Season 2, Episode 19 – Aired: 4/25/2001 "Then Love Came Along" Daniel Baldwin | |
| 2000 | Call of The Wild | Animal Planet Nick Mancuso, Sarah-Jane Redmond, Steve Bacic Season 1, Episode 12 – Aired: 6/12/2000 "Molly Brown’s in Town’’ | |
| 2000 | Gene Roddenberry's Earth Final Conflict | (1997-2002) TV Series Season 4, Episode 13 – Aired: 1/29/2001 "Dark Matter" Season 5, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/29/2001 "Boone's Awakening" Kevin Kilner Season 5, Episode 6 – Aired: 11/5/2001 "Termination" Margot Kidder Season 5, Episode 7 – Aired: 11/12/2001 "Guilty Conscience" Michael Sarrazin Season 5, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/19/2001 "Boone's Assassin" Kevin Kilner Season 5, Episode 10 – Aired: 1/14/2002 "Legacy" Season 5, Episode 21 – Aired: 5/13/2002 "The Journey" | |
| 2000 | Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda | (10 episodes) (2000–2004) Tribune Entertainment TV Series Kevin Sorbo, John de Lancie, Lochlyn Munro Season 1, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/20/2000 "Banks of The Lethe" Season 1, Episode 11 – Aired: 1/22/2001 "The Pearls That Were His Eyes" Season 1, Episode 16 – Aired: 2/26/2001 "The Sum of Its Parts" Season 2, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/15/2001 "A Heart For Falsehood Framed" Season 2, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/29/2001 "Last Call at the Broken Hammer" Season 4, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/20/2003 "Double or Nothingness" Season 4, Episode 9 – Aired: 1/12/2004 "Machinery of The Mind" Season 5, Episode 7 – Aired: 11/5/2004 "Attempting Screed" Season 5, Episode 12 – Aired: 1/21/2005 "Pride Before the Fall" EPISODE 100 Season 5, Episode 14 – Aired: 2/4/2005 "Past is Prolix" | |
| 2002 | Dinotopia | ABC TV Series Georgina Rylance, Michael Brandon, Trevor Peacock, Lisa Zane Season 1, Episode 3 – Aired: 12/5/2002 "Handful of Dust" Season 1, Episode 7 "Night of The Wartosa" filmed in Budapest, Hungary | |
| 2002 | Body & Soul | Pax TV Peter Strauss, Currie Graham Season 1, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/7/2002 "Saviors" | |
| 2004 | Stargate: Atlantis | MGM Season 1, Episode 6 – Aired: 8/13/2004 "Childhood's End" | |
| 2006 | Naturally, Sadie | Disney, Family Channel Season 2, Episode 2 – Aired: 4/9/2006 "Year of The Dragon" Season 2, Episode 8 – Aired: 5/21/2006 "Double Jeopardy" Season 3, Episode 2 – Aired: 2007 "Smother’s Day" Season 3, Episode 5 – Aired: 2007 "Poetic Justice" | |
| 2006 | Dinosapien | BBC Kids, Discovery Channel Pilot & multiple episodes Season 1, Episode 1 – Aired: 2007 “Dawn of the Dinosaur” Season 1, Episode 2 – Aired: 2007 “Without a Paddle” Season 1, Episode 3 – Aired: 04/07/07 "The Monster in the Woods" Season 1, Episode 4 – Aired: 04/14/07 “Critters” | |
| 2007 | Blood Ties | Lifetime TV Season 1, Episode 11 – Aired: 5/13/2007 “Post Partum” Season 2, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/26/2007 “5:55” Season 2, Episode 6 – Aired: 11/16/2007 “Drawn and Quartered” Season 2, Episode 9 – Aired: 1/1/2008 “We’ll Meet Again” | |
| 2010 | Todd and the Book of Pure Evil | Space, CTV Season 1, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/6/2010 “Rock N' Roll Zombies Know Best“ Season 1, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/10/2010 “Cockfight” Season 2, Episode 5 – Aired: 11/27/2011 “Jungle Fever“ Season 2, Episode 7 – Aired: 01/05/2012 “See You Later...” | |
| 2011 | Lost Girl | SYFY Channel, Showcase Anna Silk, Kris Holden-Ried, Lauren Holly Season 2, Episode 14 – Aired: 01/22/2012 “Midnight Lamp” | |
| 2012 | Health Nutz | APTN Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Season 2, Episode 3 – Aired: 01/21/2012 “Juice, Jesus and Rock & Roll” Mike Reno Season 2, Episode 4 – Aired: 01/28/2012 “Hypno Yoga” Brian George | |
| 2012 | XIII: The Series | SYFY Channel, Showcase, Canal + Stuart Townsend, Stephen McHattie Season 2, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/29/2012 “Gauntlet” Steve Bacic Season 2, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/05/2012 "Pong" Sarah Lian | |
| 2012 | Mr. Young | Disney Channel, YTV Brendan Meyer, Matreya Fedor Season 3, Episode 10 – Aired: 10/30/2012 “Mr. Candy” Season 3, Episode 15 – Aired: 02/26/2013 "Mr. Slumber Party" Season 3, Episode 16 – Aired: 11/06/2012 "Mr. Sci-Fi" | |
| 2014 | The Stanley Dynamic | YTV Charles Vandervaart, Taylor Abrahamse, Kate Hewlett Season 1, Episode 17 – “The Stanley Superhero” Season 1, Episode 18 – "The Stanley Grandpa" Michael Gross Season 1, Episode 19 – "The Stanley Dodger" Season 1, Episode 20 – "The Stanley Spirit" | |
| 2014 | Max and Shred | Nickelodeon, YTV Jonny Gray, Jake Goodman Season 1, Episode 22 – “The Boardercross Bionic Boost” Season 1, Episode 23 – “The Goofy Tamedog Air” | |
References
- 1 2 3 Volmers, Eric (2012-01-21). "Calgary director gets shot at a succubus". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
- ↑ "Calgary Magazine Freeze Frame, September 1987, by: Linda Kupecek, "The Winning Way"".
- ↑ "LA Times review by Kevin Thomas, December 11, 1989".
- ↑ "1989, 1990 Gemini Awards 3 nominations". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.
- ↑ "SYFY Channel's official Stargate: Atlantis site for "Childhood's End"".
- ↑ "The Sci Fi World.Net Interview with David Winning, June 2005".
- ↑ Volmers, Eric (January 19, 2009). "Hollywood's Hired Gun". Calgary Herald. Retrieved April 11, 2010.
- ↑ "Street Justice Interview, August 2000".
- ↑ "Toronto Star, March 17, 2000, by: Jim Bawden, " Carver convincingly troubled in rare TV outing "".
- ↑ "Pre-production Begins on Middle Eastern Fairy Tale Sinbad The Fifth Voyage". News Net Publisher. July 16, 2009.
- ↑ "1989, 1990, 1997 Gemini Awards 4 nominations". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.
- ↑ "2002 DGC Team Awards TV Series Drama for "Moonshine Over Harlem"". DGC. Retrieved November 19, 2009.
- ↑ Bruce Dern/David Winning Film Swamp Devil Premieres on SCI FI CHANNEL from Encyclopedia.com
- ↑ "RHI official site Black Swarm". RHI Films. Retrieved December 25, 2009.
