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David Winning

Date of Birth / Doğum Tarihi
8 May 1961, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Mini Biography / Biyografi
At twenty-two, he directed his debut feature Storm (1987) with just $50,000. It was released theatrically by Cannon International in April 1988. Later distributed by Warner Home Video in 1989; selling over 20,000 cassettes. His second feature Killer Image (1992) starring Michael Ironside and veteran character actor M. Emmet Walsh is available on Paramount Home Video and received its US Premiere as a Finalist at the 1992 Houston Film Festival.Writing and producing two early independent features led to an award-winning two decades as guest Director for Paramount Pictures Television, MGM, Cannell Films, Nickelodeon, Disney, Tribune and the Fox Network. His episodic work has garnered international awards including Fourteen First Place GOLDS overall at the 1992-2006 Houston Film Festivals, the 1995 Gold Hugo and Two Silver Hugo's 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 Director's Guild of Canada for Outstanding Achievement in Television Drama; nominated again for this award in 2006. His third feature, the Lance Henriksen thriller Profile for Murder (1996) ran frequently on HBO, followed by the release of the Kim Cattrall/Eric McCormack thriller Exception to the Rule (1997) for Artisan and Lion's Gate Films which won First Place Gold at the 1997 Houston Film Festival.He began directing network television at the age of twenty-seven for Paramount's series "Friday the 13th" (1987). Eighteen years of episodic production has included in the past decade the Showtime/Disney western anthology "Dead Man's Gun" (1997), the USA Network Series "Matrix" (1993) with Carrie-Anne Moss, and the pilot and first six episodes of the UPN/FOX series "Breaker High" (1997) with Ryan Gosling. In the summer of 1996 he re-teamed with Michael Ironside and Frederic Forrest for the Universal military thriller One of Our Own (1997). His last theatrical release, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997) for 20th Century Fox, was the 4th Highest selling Video in the U.S. in August 1997 (Billboard). Winning spent the fall of 1997 shooting in Scotland with Jason Connery on the Merlin (1998/I) (TV) project. Next he directed the Patrick Duffy/Pam Dawber thriller Don't Look Behind You (1999) (TV) which premiered to 2 million viewers on the Fox Family Channel. In recent years dividing time between features and episodic work on ABC's "Dinotopia" (2002) , filming for three months in Budapest, Pax's Angel series "Twice in a Lifetime" (1999) , Jack London's "Call of the Wild" (2000), and Gene Roddenberry's twin sci-fi series "Earth: Final Conflict" (1997) and "Andromeda" (2000) starring Kevin Sorbo. His "Stargate: Atlantis" (2004) Season One episode "Childhood's End" won 3 awards for Direction in 2005; New York, Houston and Chicago. Currently completing the Kevin Sorbo Sci Fi Channel monster movie Something Beneath (2007) (TV) and the new vampire series "Blood Ties" (2006).Eleven Features. Twenty Series. Over Ninety credits. Born in Calgary, Canada in 1961. US/Canada Dual Citizen. 50 International Awards/9 nominations. IMDb Mini Biography By: Stan Edmonds

Trivia / Önemsiz Şeyler
Began making films in 1971, at age ten. Favorite directors are Stanley Kubrick and John Carpenter.Storm (1987). Director, Winning, appears in two cameos in the film; as Young Jim in 1946 flashbacks and also as the Man in the Wilderness in Lowell's opening nightmare sequence.Became a US Citizen on 17 September 2003. Holds Dual passports; Canada also.According to M. Night Shyamalan, the movie The Sixth Sense (1999) was inspired by an episode of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" (1992) called "Are You Afraid of the Dark?: The Tale of the Dream Girl (#3.10)" (1994) directed by David Winning in which leading characters are ignored by somebody and don't realize that they are dead until the final moment. In The Tale of the Dream Girl, a brother discovers that only his sister can see him and she ultimately shows him his own obituary.

Personal Quotes / Kişisel Alıntılar
""The creative side of me believes filmmaking is an art form, but I always tell people the process is a little like painting a picture when seven people are holding the brush. The director is the ringleader: the job is to get creative forces working together to get the best result. I like to create an environment that's fun for people to work in. It's such a delicate balance, especially when you're trying to coax the best performances out of actors, especially when the material is tough. You have to create a little cocoon for them to work in."" (Vancouver Sun, December 1999)""My big complaint about Storm is that it was a little too personal, I'm going to be stricter with myself this time.""""When someone that close to you is gone, you realize how much of your life was spent trying to impress that person. I always thought of my dad as my chief adviser. He knew I had an interest in film and pushed me to keep doing it. I miss him a lot. For four years, I was writing a film about dealing with a death, and now I'm dealing with a death. It seems like it should have happened the other way round."" (January 1991)