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Canadian Director David Winning to Be Honored in Hawaii
Big Island Film Festival
CALGARY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Filmmaker David Winning (Andromeda,
Stargate: Atlantis, Blood Ties) is being honored at this years Big
Island Film Festival in Hawaii. He will receive a special award on
May 17, 2008 with a reception in his honor the same night. A
doublebill of his two recent monster movies will also be presented at
the festival; SWAMP DEVIL starring Bruce Dern and BLACK SWARM
starring Robert Englund. Winning just won 2 awards at the Houston
Film Festival in Texas and a Special Jury Award for his work on the
Lifetime vampire series BLOOD TIES. BLACK SWARM is also screening at
the Boston Film Festival on Friday the 13th of June. Both films were
produced in Montreal by Muse Entertainment and RHI Films, New York.
Bruce Dern of "Coming Home", "BIG LOVE", and "Silent Running" fame
and director Winning collaborated on the new monster movie SWAMP
DEVIL. The southern bogs are among the most amazing of all the
habitats on Earth, a mile-wide slow-moving river of grass and decay,
home to an amazing array of wildlife. Some wilder than others.
Responding to a call that her estranged father, Howard (Dern), is
dying, Melanie Blaime returns home to the nearly deserted small
southern town of Gibbington. She's discovers he's also a suspect. But
when the sheriff is attacked and killed, it is clear that the culprit
is someone, or something else. And there's something funny about that
swamp… If a foul vine-choked mass of mud and earth rises from a swamp
and no one's around to hear it, does it make a sound? A fun, tense
and campy monster pic.
Directing film and television for over twenty years; this production
marks Winning's Thirteenth feature. He is also a veteran of 20 Series
and over 90 episodes for TV, including Stargate: Atlantis and
multiple seasons on Andromeda w/ Kevin Sorbo. He was the 2002
recipient of the Director's Guild of Canada's National Award for
Excellence in Television Drama. Winning also spent four months in
Hungary shooting the ABC family series Dinotopia; now released on
DVD. Last Spring he directed PAST SINS for Lifetime starring Young &
Restless' Lauralee Bell and Rebecca Jenkins -- and also episodes of
the new LIFETIME TV Vampire series BLOOD TIES. Winning is repped by
manager Jeff Aghassi in LA. In Canada by Anna Archer/Lucas Talent and
Charles Northcote/Core Group.
www.DavidWinning.com
www.bigislandfilmfestival.com
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Canadian Director David Winning to Be Honored in Hawaii
Big Island Film Festival
CALGARY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Filmmaker David Winning (Andromeda,
Stargate: Atlantis, Blood Ties) is being honored at this years Big
Island Film Festival in Hawaii. He will receive a special award on
May 17, 2008 with a reception in his honor the same night. A
doublebill of his two recent monster movies will also be presented at
the festival; SWAMP DEVIL starring Bruce Dern and BLACK SWARM
starring Robert Englund. Winning just won 2 awards at the Houston
Film Festival in Texas and a Special Jury Award for his work on the
Lifetime vampire series BLOOD TIES. BLACK SWARM is also screening at
the Boston Film Festival on Friday the 13th of June. Both films were
produced in Montreal by Muse Entertainment and RHI Films, New York.
Bruce Dern of "Coming Home", "BIG LOVE", and "Silent Running" fame
and director Winning collaborated on the new monster movie SWAMP
DEVIL. The southern bogs are among the most amazing of all the
habitats on Earth, a mile-wide slow-moving river of grass and decay,
home to an amazing array of wildlife. Some wilder than others.
Responding to a call that her estranged father, Howard (Dern), is
dying, Melanie Blaime returns home to the nearly deserted small
southern town of Gibbington. She's discovers he's also a suspect. But
when the sheriff is attacked and killed, it is clear that the culprit
is someone, or something else. And there's something funny about that
swamp… If a foul vine-choked mass of mud and earth rises from a swamp
and no one's around to hear it, does it make a sound? A fun, tense
and campy monster pic.
Directing film and television for over twenty years; this production
marks Winning's Thirteenth feature. He is also a veteran of 20 Series
and over 90 episodes for TV, including Stargate: Atlantis and
multiple seasons on Andromeda w/ Kevin Sorbo. He was the 2002
recipient of the Director's Guild of Canada's National Award for
Excellence in Television Drama. Winning also spent four months in
Hungary shooting the ABC family series Dinotopia; now released on
DVD. Last Spring he directed PAST SINS for Lifetime starring Young &
Restless' Lauralee Bell and Rebecca Jenkins -- and also episodes of
the new LIFETIME TV Vampire series BLOOD TIES. Winning is repped by
manager Jeff Aghassi in LA. In Canada by Anna Archer/Lucas Talent and
Charles Northcote/Core Group.
www.DavidWinning.com
www.bigislandfilmfestival.com