At twenty-two, WINNING directed his debut feature "STORM" with just $50,000. "STORM" was released theatrically by Cannon International in April 1988. Later distributed by Warner Home Video; selling over 20,000 cassettes. His second feature "KILLER IMAGE" 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 independent features led to an award-winning decade plus as guest Director for Paramount Pictures Television, MGM, Cannell Films, Nickelodeon, Disney, Tribune and the FOX NETWORK. 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. 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. His third feature, the Lance Henriksen thriller "PROFILE FOR MURDER" ran frequently on HBO, followed by the release of the Kim Cattrall/Eric McCormack thriller "EXCEPTION TO THE RULE" for ARTISAN and LION'S GATE FILMS which won First Place Gold at the Houston Film Festival.

He began directing network television at the age of twenty-seven for Paramount's "FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE SERIES". Sixteen years of episodic production led more recently to the Showtime/Disney western anthology "DEAD MAN'S GUN", the USA Network series "MATRIX" with Carrie-Anne Moss, and the pilot and first six episodes of the UPN/FOX series "BREAKER HIGH". In the summer of 1996 he re-teamed with Michael Ironside and Frederic Forrest for the Universal military thriller "ONE OF OUR OWN". His last theatrical release, "TURBO: A POWER RANGERS MOVIE" 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" project. Next he directed the Patrick Duffy/Pam Dawber thriller "DON'T LOOK BEHIND YOU" which premiered to 2 Million viewers on the Fox Family Channel. Most recently dividing time between features and episodic work on ABC's "DINOTOPIA" filming in Budapest, Pax's Angel series "TWICE IN A LIFETIME", and Gene Roddenberry's two sci-fi series "EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT" and "ANDROMEDA" starring Kevin Sorbo. His recent STARGATE: ATLANTIS Season One episode for MGM, "Childhood's End" won 3 international awards for Direction in 2005; New York, Houston and Chicago.

THIRTEEN Features. Twenty series. Over Ninety episodes for Television. Born in Calgary, Canada. US/Canada Dual Citizen. 47 International Awards/5 nominations. Just wrapped a feature MOW for LIFETIME aired July 2, 2006. Currently directing Blood Ties for Lifetime and the new Kevin Sorbo monster movie SOMETHING BENEATH on Sci Fi Channel in June 2007. Just wrapped 2 more monster movies in Montreal with Bruce Dern and Robert Englund.