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Stargate Atlantis wins a Platinum Award in Houston |
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The juries for the 2005 WorldFest Houston (Houston Film and
Television Festival) have awarded Childhood's End, of the Sci-Fi series Stargate: Atlantis, with a Platinum Award in the category of Best Direction.
The 38th
Annual WorldFest offered 55 new intl Feature films and 100 award-winning
shorts, plus six technical production seminars sponsored by Eastman Kodak
and Hewlett Packard. WorldFest is one of the best conceived festival productions on the planet!" Craig Outhier, film critic, Phoenix
press; Tempe Times. Upon Accepting his Remi Award in 1984, Ridley Scott
said "WorldFest is in the business of validating excellence!" Director
David Winning also received a second Gold Remi Award for an episode of
Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda: Atempting Screed.
The episode
Childhood's End previously won Bronze in January at the 2005 New York
Festicals and Silver in Chicago. It premiered on the Sci Fi Channel (US)
August 13 and on Canadian Channels (Movie Central) Monday, August 16, 2004.
The episode was produced by Brad Wright, Robert Cooper and N. John Smith.
Episode Summary: Major Sheppard, McKay, Ford and Teyla crash-land their
"puddle jumper" ship on an alien world with a strong electro-magnetic field.
There they meet Keras, one of the elders of the indigenous population --
only Keras is just 24 years old. There is no one older in the village, and
the team soon learns the disturbing reason.
Sci-Fi and Feature
Director David Winning helmed the episode of Stargate: Atlantis for MGM and
the Sci-Fi Channel. He has been directing film and television for over twenty
years and this production marked his 17th episodic series. Winning is also a
veteran of Nine feature films, four seasons of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
starring Kevin Sorbo and multiple episodes of it's sister series Earth: Final
Conflict. He was the first recipient of the Director's Guild of Canada's
National Award for Excellence in Television Drama. Winning recently spent
four months in Hungary shooting the ABC family series Dinotopia; which was
recently released on DVD. This Atlantis episode was his first with the
franchise.
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