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David Sington is a British-born director, producer, screenwriter and author. He read Natural Sciences at
. In 1999, he left the BBC to form his own production company DOX Productions, Ltd. Since then, he has made multiple television films. , as well as seven feature documentary films.
''The Times'', 15 March 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
David Sington is a British-born director, producer, screenwriter and author. He read Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...
, graduating in 1981.
Career
He started his career in 1982 at theBBC World Service
The BBC World Service is an international broadcasting, international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC, with funding from the Government of the United Kingdom, British Government through the Foreign Secretary, Foreign Secretary's o ...
as a studio manager and subsequently a talk producer. In 1987 he moved to television and thereafter produced eight documentary films and two major documentary film series for the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...Personal life
In 1987 he married the American literary scholar and writer Pamela Neville with whom he collaborated on a book on the influence of utopian thought. Pamela died in March 2017. The couple had no children.Pamela Neville-Sington.''The Times'', 15 March 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
Awards
In 1999, he was awarded the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism. In 2000, he was made an Honorary member ofSigma Xi
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society () is a highly prestigious, non-profit honor society for scientists and engineers. Sigma Xi was founded at Cornell University by a junior faculty member and a small group of graduate students in 1886 ...
, The Scientific Research Society His film Project Poltergeist won a prestigious Grierson Award
The Grierson Awards are awards set up by The Grierson Trust to recognise innovative and exciting documentary films, created to commemorate the life and work of the pioneering Scottish documentary filmmaker John Grierson.
The inaugural Awards w ...
in 2004.
Filmography
* 2020: ''A to Z: the Secret History of Writing'', for PBS, Arte and BBC (DOX Productions/Films à Cinq) * 2018: '' Mercury 13'' * 2015: ''The Fear of 13
''The Fear of 13'' is a 2015 British documentary film by David Sington. It tells the story of Nick Yarris, who was convicted and sentenced to capital punishment for a 1981 kidnapping, rape and murder, and spent 22 years on death row in Pennsy ...
'' (Watch Free Documentaries Online)(Netflix
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)
*2011: ''The Flaw'' (animated by Peter J. Richardson)
*2007: ''In the Shadow of the Moon (2007 film)
''In the Shadow of the Moon'' is a 2007 British documentary film about the United States' crewed missions to the Moon. After premiering at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award, it was given a limited re ...
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*2006: ''Dimming of the Sun'' (PBS Nova
''Nova'' (stylized as ''NOVΛ'') is an American popular science television program produced by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, since 1974. It is broadcast on PBS in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries. The program has won man ...
)
*2005: ''Global Dimming'' (BBC Horizon
''Horizon'' is an ongoing and long-running British documentary television series on BBC Two that covers science and philosophy.
History
The programme was first broadcast on 2 May 1964 with "The World of Buckminster Fuller" which explored the ...
)
Books
He has co-written the following books: * *References
External links
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