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David Winning(I)

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David Winning
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46 Features, 29 Series, over 180 TV credits, David Winning is a US/Canada Dual Citizen and veteran film & television Director and Producer. Experience in all genres: Sci-Fi, horror, drama, action, theatrical release, movies-of-the-week, episodic, romance, westerns, Christmas movies, comedy, family, kid's series, live audience multi-cam, situation comedies, web-based, etc.

At 22, he directed his debut feature Storm (1985) with just $50K. It was released theatrically by Cannon International in April 1988 and distributed by Warner Home Entertainment in 1989; selling 20K copies. His second feature Killer Image (1992) starring Michael Ironside and veteran character actor M. Emmet Walsh released through Paramount Home Entertainment received its US Premiere as a Finalist at the 1992 Houston International Film Festival. Writing and producing two early independent features led to an award-winning three decades as guest Director for Paramount, MGM, Netflix, Hallmark Channel, Cannell Films, Nickelodeon, Disney, ABC, Tribune, Fox, BBC Kids and UP TV. His episodic work has garnered over 90 international awards and nominations including the Houston International Film Festival, the 1995 Gold Hugo & Two Silver Hugo's from the Chicago International Film Festival, and four national Gemini Television nominations for Best Director/Dramatic Series. In 2002 he received a National Award from the Director's Guild for Outstanding Achievement in Drama; nominated again in 2006. His third feature, the Lance Henriksen thriller Profile for Murder (1996) debuted 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 Best Thriller at WorldFest Houston.

He began directing network television at the age of 27 for Paramount's series Friday the 13th: The Series (1987). 30 years of episodic production has included the Showtime/Disney western anthology Dead Man's Gun (1997), Matrix (1993) (USA Network) with Carrie-Anne Moss, and the pilot and first six episodes of UPN/FOX's 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 theatrical release, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997) (20th Century Fox), was the 4th Highest selling film in the U.S. in August 1997 (Billboard). Winning spent that fall shooting in Scotland with Jason Connery on the Merlin (1998) project. Next he directed the Patrick Duffy/Pam Dawber thriller Don't Look Behind You (1999) (Fox Family). Further work followed: ABC's Dinotopia (2002), 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 Best Director awards in 2005; New York, Houston and Chicago. Winning directed Kevin Sorbo, Robert Englund, and Bruce Dern in a trilogy of monster movies for SYFY and Hallmark (RHI New York) and also episodes of the Lifetime vampire series Blood Ties (2007). In 2011 he supervised and directed the far north adventure series Yukonic! (2011) and helmed episodes of the comedy/horror series Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (2010) (Space) and Lost Girl (2010) & XIII: The Series (2011) (Stuart Townsend) (SYFY/Showcase). He has done multi-cam live audience series' Max & Shred (2014) (Nickelodeon) and Mr. Young (2011) (Disney Channel) and the heart-warming romantic comedy The Town That Came A-Courtin' (2014) (UP TV) starring Lauren Holly and Valerie Harper. In 2014 he directed the NY Times Top #5 Rated movie The Tree That Saved Christmas (2014) with Lacey Chabert, as well as the inspirational Paper Angels (2014) (UP TV) -- and the post-apocalyptic action thriller Mutant World (2014) (Sony/SYFY) with Kim Coates and Ashanti. In the 2016 season he directed six movies in seven months; thrillers, Christmas and family movies. Premiering that year Unleashing Mr. Darcy (2016) broke a Hallmark network record for social media with over 47 Million tweets. Recent work includes a dozen new Hallmark and UP TV features; including directing (and producing) The Rooftop Christmas Tree (2016) (Tim Reid, Michelle Morgan), Tulips in Spring (2016) (Fiona Gubelmann), Finding Santa (2017) (Jodie Sweetin), While You Were Dating (2017) (William Baldwin), A December Bride (2016) (Jessica Lowndes), Winter's Dream (2018) (Dean Cain), A Summer Romance (2019) (Erin Krakow, Ryan Paevey), Blake Shelton's Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas (2018) and two final films in the Father Christmas Series (Erin Krakow). David helmed six episodes of the (SYFY/Netflix) hit series Van Helsing (2016), a post-apocalyptic take on the vampire rising based on a graphic novel, directing the 3rd Season Finale and opening the explosive Fourth season for 2020.
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DP Tony Metchie and director David Winning.  16 movies together.
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David Winning directing Killer Image (1992)
David Winning and William Shatner.  2006 FanExpo Toronto.
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David Winning and Robert Higden in Swamp Devil (2008)
David Winning, Chad Krowchuk, and Jim Thorburn in Who Killed My Husband? (2016)
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - FEBRUARY 06: Producer Maura Dunbar, director David Winning and Rustin Gresiuk attend the 23rd Annual MovieGuide Awards at Universal Hilton Hotel on February 6, 2015 in Universal City, California.  Paper Angels was nominated for the 2015 Epiphany Prize for Television.
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - FEBRUARY 06: Josie Bissett, director David Winning and Rustin Gresiuk attend the 23rd Annual MovieGuide Awards at Universal Hilton Hotel on February 6, 2015 in Universal City, California.  Paper Angels was nominated for the 2015 Epiphany Prize for Television.
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - FEBRUARY 06: Rustin Gresiuk and director David Winning attend the 23rd Annual MovieGuide Awards at Universal Hilton Hotel on February 6, 2015 in Universal City, California.  Paper Angels was nominated for the 2015 Epiphany Prize for Television.
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - FEBRUARY 06: Rustin Gresiuk, director David Winning and producer Maura Dunbar attend the 23rd Annual MovieGuide Awards at Universal Hilton Hotel on February 6, 2015 in Universal City, California.  Paper Angels was nominated for the 2015 Epiphany Prize for Television.
David Winning, Tammy Jones, Eric Keenleyside, Anthony C. Metchie, Jim Thorburn, Lini Evans, Alisha Newton, Richard Flower, and Gabriel Zamora in The Tree That Saved Christmas (2014)

Known for

Aleks Paunovic, Kelly Overton, Jonathan Scarfe, Nicole Muñoz, and Keeya King in Van Helsing (2016)
Van Helsing
6.2
TV Series
  • Director
Joe Flanigan, David Hewlett, Torri Higginson, Rachel Luttrell, Paul McGillion, Jason Momoa, and Mitch Pileggi in Stargate: Atlantis (2004)
Stargate: Atlantis
8.1
TV Series
  • Director
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997)
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
3.6
  • Director
  • 1997
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990)
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
8.2
TV Series
  • Director

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  • Field Day
    • Director
    • Post-production
    • 2023
  • STZ
    • Director
    • Pre-production
  • Trickrider
    • Director
    • In Development
  • The Dead Reckoning
    • Director (attached)
    • In Development
  • Tyler Hynes and Holland Roden in Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas (2022)
    Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas
    • Director
    • TV Movie
    • 2022
  • Brandon Routh and Kimberley Sustad in The Nine Kittens of Christmas (2021)
    The Nine Kittens of Christmas
    • Director
    • TV Movie
    • 2021
  • Danica McKellar and Benjamin Ayres in You, Me & the Christmas Trees (2021)
    You, Me & the Christmas Trees
    • Director
    • TV Movie
    • 2021
  • Andrew W. Walker and Autumn Reeser in The 27-Hour Day (2021)
    The 27-Hour Day
    • Director
    • TV Movie
    • 2021
  • The Crossword Mysteries (2019)
    The Crossword Mysteries
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Lacey Chabert, Doron Bell, Peter Kelamis, Leon, Stephen Huszar, Lini Evans, and Vienna Leacock in Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas (2020)
    Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas
    • Director
    • TV Movie
    • 2020
  • Luke Macfarlane and Erin Krakow in Sense, Sensibility & Snowmen (2019)
    Sense, Sensibility & Snowmen
    • Director
    • TV Movie
    • 2019
  • Rachael Leigh Cook and Benjamin Ayres in A Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas (2019)
    A Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas
    • Director
    • TV Movie
    • 2019
  • Aleks Paunovic, Kelly Overton, Jonathan Scarfe, Nicole Muñoz, and Keeya King in Van Helsing (2016)
    Van Helsing
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2017–2019
  • Erin Krakow and Ryan Paevey in A Summer Romance (2019)
    A Summer Romance
    • Director
    • TV Movie
    • 2019
  • Megan Park and Josh Henderson in Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas (2018)
    Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas
    • Director
    • TV Movie
    • 2018
  • Vanessa Lachey and Brendon Zub in A Twist of Christmas (2018)
    A Twist of Christmas
    • Director
    • TV Movie
    • 2018
  • Niall Matter and Erin Krakow in Marrying Father Christmas (2018)
    Marrying Father Christmas
    • Director
    • TV Movie
    • 2018
  • Dean Cain and Kristy Swanson in Winter's Dream (2018)
    Winter's Dream
    • Director
    • TV Movie
    • 2018
  • Jodie Sweetin and Eric Winter in Finding Santa (2017)
    Finding Santa
    • Director
    • TV Movie
    • 2017

Additional Crew

  • Zak Santiago and Sara Canning in The Christmas Yule Blog (2020)
    The Christmas Yule Blog
    • consulting Director (uncredited)
    • TV Movie
    • 2020
  • Yukonic! (2011)
    Yukonic!
    • supervising director
    • TV Series
    • 2011
  • Kevin Sorbo, Laura Bertram, Keith Hamilton Cobb, Lexa Doig, Lisa Ryder, and Gordon Michael Woolvett in Andromeda (2000)
    Andromeda
    • director: archive footage
    • TV Series
    • 2003–2005
  • Corbin Bernsen, Patrick Duffy, and Al Waxman in Twice in a Lifetime (1999)
    Twice in a Lifetime
    • creative consultant
    • TV Series
    • 1999
  • Don't Look Behind You (1999)
    Don't Look Behind You
    • additional writer: action scenes
    • TV Movie
    • 1999

Actor

  • Megan Park and Josh Henderson in Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas (2018)
    Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas
    • JFK Airport PA (voice, uncredited)
    • TV Movie
    • 2018
  • Dean Cain and Kristy Swanson in Winter's Dream (2018)
    Winter's Dream
    • New York Office on Phone (voice, uncredited)
    • TV Movie
    • 2018
  • Julie Gonzalo and Benjamin Ayres in Falling for Vermont (2017)
    Falling for Vermont
    • Movie Trailer Guy
    • Fall Fair Announcer (voice, uncredited)
    • TV Movie
    • 2017
  • Sarah Butler and Marcus Rosner in Infidelity in Suburbia (2017)
    Infidelity in Suburbia
    • Baloo Owner on Dock
    • 911 Man (uncredited)
    • TV Movie
    • 2017
  • William Baldwin and Stefanie von Pfetten in While You Were Dating (2017)
    While You Were Dating
    • Football Announcer
    • Cinara Head Waiter
    • Construction Worker (voice, uncredited)
    • TV Movie
    • 2017
  • Jessica Lowndes and Daniel Lissing in A December Bride (2016)
    A December Bride
    • Best Man at Wedding (voice, uncredited)
    • TV Movie
    • 2016
  • Jaime King and Luke Macfarlane in The Mistletoe Promise (2016)
    The Mistletoe Promise
    • Hitesman Christmas Party Guest
    • Shocked Office Worker
    • Announcer Larimar Snow Park Festival (voice, uncredited)
    • TV Movie
    • 2016
  • Where's My Baby? (2016)
    Where's My Baby?
    • Dr. Loomis
    • Newsroom Jamie
    • SWAT Commander (voice, uncredited)
    • TV Movie
    • 2016
  • Andrea Bowen, Nils Hognestad, and Thomas Cadrot in Who Killed My Husband? (2016)
    Who Killed My Husband?
    • News Announcer
    • Police Dispatch (voice, uncredited)
    • TV Movie
    • 2016
  • Witches' Legacy 4: The Ties That Bind
    • Jonathan Corwin (voice)
    • Video Game
    • 2014
  • Jay Leno in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
    • Chili John's Customer (uncredited)
    • TV Series
    • 2010
  • Something Beneath (2007)
    Something Beneath
    • Beast in the Woods
    • Angry Arab Guest
    • TV Announcer (voice, uncredited)
    • TV Movie
    • 2007
  • Lauralee Bell and Woody Jeffreys in Past Sins (2006)
    Past Sins
    • News Announcer
    • Informant
    • Reverend on Telephone (uncredited)
    • TV Movie
    • 2006
  • Profile for Murder (1996)
    Profile for Murder
    • Boyfriend on Answering Machine (voice, uncredited)
    • 1996
  • Storm (1985)
    Storm
    • Young Jim
    • Radio Announcer
    • Man in the Wilderness (uncredited)
    • 1985
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  • Height
    • 6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
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    • May 8
    • Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Other works
    Sessional Instructor, Film History. University of Calgary, 1985-86.
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    According to M. Night Shyamalan, the movie The Sixth Sense (1999) was inspired by an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990) directed by David Winning in which lead characters are ignored by everyone not realizing 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.
  • Quotes
    "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)

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