David Winning

About David Winning

Director 47 Features, 29 Series, Over 160 TV credits. Netflix\' VAN HELSING, Hallmark…

Experience

1. Film & Television Director

   Groundstar Mdw Entertainment Group

   Jan 1977 — Present

   Director 47 Features, 29 Series, Over 160 TV credits. 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 US and Canada in 2003. He was making films at the age of ten with a Super 8 camera in hometown Calgary, Canada. Throughout the 1990\'s and he directed many 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. 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. Recently he helmed a trilogy of monster movies for the SYFY Channel starring Bruce Dern, Kevin Sorbo and Robert Englund and the Vampire series BLOOD TIES for Lifetime. In 2010 he directed episodes of Space Channel\'s hit comedy/horror series TODD AND THE BOOK OF PURE EVIL - and supervised and directed the far north webisode series YUKONIC! In 2012 he directed LOST GIRL for Showcase and SYFY Channel, the high action series with Stuart Townsend for Canal+ and the multi-cam live audience series MR. YOUNG for the Disney Channel. 2014 premiered the new romantic comedy TOWN THAT CAME A-COURTIN\' starring Lauren Holly and Valerie for UP TV -\"Tree That Saved Christmas\" with Lacey Chabert and Corey Sevier, also for UP - and the post-apocalyptic action thriller Mutant World for Sony and The SYFY Channel with Kim Coates, Ashanti, Holly Deveaux and Amber Marshall.). Six family movies for HALLMARK - MAGIC STOCKING (Bridget Regan, Victor Webster) – and the recently aired UNLEASHING MR. DARCY (Ryan Paevey, Cindy Busby, Frances Fisher), which had 3 Million viewers and generated over 47 Million posts on Twitter.

Education

• William Aberhart

  12, High School

  1975 — 1978

Skills

• Short Films
• Independent Film
• Commercials
• Storytelling
• Video
• Camera Operating
• Entertainment
• Stage
• Television Production
• Film Production
• Screenwriting
• Pre-Production
• Media Production
• Drama
• Reality
• New Media
• Voice Over
• Post Production
• Broadcast Television
• Television
• Producing
• Film
• Video Production
• Final Draft
• Web Video
• Production Managment
• Non-Linear Editing
• Casting
• Acting
• Comedy
• Camera
• Music Videos
• Visual Effects
• Field Producing
• Avid Media Composer
• Feature Films
• Cinematography
• Videography
• Video Editing
• Directing