London-based film director David Sington started making films as a teenager and has never stopped. He has filmed on every continent on the planet, from the Amazon to the Antarctic. His films have helped to free the innocent, convict the guilty and have drawn public attention to some of the most pressing issues facing the world, especially climate change.

He has won numerous prestigious awards, including a DuPont Award, a Grierson Award, two WildScreen Pandas, Gold and Silver Hugos, and an EarthWatch Award. His theatrical documentaries, such as In the Shadow of the Moon, The Flaw, Thin Ice, The Fear of 13 and Mercury 13 have drawn large audiences to cinemas in the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Germany and France, and have won Audience Awards at many leading film festivals, including Sundance and CPH:DOX. For over twenty years his television projects have won commissions from leading broadcasters such as the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, National Geographic, Discovery, Arte and Netflix.

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Founder of DOX Productions 

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Selected Media Coverage:

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• The Guardian | David Sington: 'I don't think anyone will shoot on film in 10 years' time'

• Roger Ebert | I met the man in the moon

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Selected Credits: 

 

2020         Director/Executive Producer: A to Z: the Secret History of Writing

                    3 x 60 mins for PBS, Arte and BBC (DOX Productions/Films à Cinq)

    

2018           Director/Producer: Mercury 13

                     75 min Netflix Original documentary feature (Fine Point Films/DOX Productions)

 

2016           Director: Captive

                     60 min Netflix Original drama documentary (Lightbox Films)

 

2015           Director: The Fear of 13

                     95 min theatrical feature (DOX Productions)

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2015           Director/Executive Producer: Licence to Krill

                     85 min feature documentary for Arte/PBS NOVA (DOX Productions/Films à Cinq)

 

2013           Director/Producer: Thin Ice

                     75 min theatrical feature documentary (DOX Productions)

 

2012           Director/Executive Producer: The Churchills

                     3 x 50 min for Channel 4 (Red House DOX)                

 

2010           Director: The Flaw

                     80 min theatrical feature documentary  (Studio Lambert/Dartmouth Films)

 

2009          Series Director/Executive Producer: Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant

                     4 x 50 min historical drama-documentary series for Channel 4 (Red House DOX)

 

2008          Executive Producer: Moon Machines

                     6 x 50 mins series for Discovery (DOX Productions)

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2007          Director: In the Shadow of the Moon

                     95 min theatrical feature documentary about the men who went to the Moon.             

                       

2006          Executive Producer Horizon: Nuclear Nightmares

                     50 mins for BBC (DOX Productions)

       

2005          Producer Horizon: Global Dimming

                     50 mins for BBC/WGBH (DOX Productions)

         Evidence of the previously unknown phenomena of Global Dimming, which climatologists believe could

        dramatically alter global temperatures.

  

2004            Producer/Director Horizon: Project Poltergeist

                       50 mins for BBC/WGBH (DOX Productions)

                       The search for the neutrino, the Universe’s most elusive ingredient.

                       ‘This film is rather wonderful and profound…’ The Times.

                       Winner, 2004 Grierson Awards.

 

2003            Producer NOVA: Magnetic Storm (DOX Productions)

                       50 mins for WGBH Boston and Channel 4

         

2002            Producer/Director Horizon: The Secret of El Dorado (DOX Productions) for BBC-2 and The Learning Channel     

           New scientific evidence that advanced societies flourished in the Amazon Basin before the arrival of Europeans.

          3 million viewers.

 

2001            Producer: Rocket Men of Mission 105 (DOX Productions)

                      50 mins for DOX and National Geographic Channels International

                      Inside story of a Shuttle mission to the International Space Station. Winner of a Gold Remi at the Houston

         WorldFest.

 

2001            Producer/Director Equinox: The Day the Oceans Boiled

                      50 mins for DOX and Channel 4/National Geographic               

                      How changes to the world’s forests and oceans could trigger a rapid acceleration of global warming. Equinox’s

         biggest audience in recent series.

 

2001            Producer Equinox: Hunt for the Death Star

                     50 mins for DOX and Channel 4/NOVA

                     The 30-year race to discover the source of the most violent explosions in the cosmos

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2000           Producer/Director The Great Dog Race

                      50 mins for DOX Productions and BBC-1 

                      The Iditarod sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome through the eyes of a young British musher and his rookie

          dog team.

                  

2000           Producer/Director Equinox: Einstein’s Biggest Blunder

                      50 mins for DOX Productions and Channel 4

                     The revolution in cosmology which is leading to a new view of the Universe.

 

1996-98:      Series Producer  Earth Story

8 x 50 mins Landmark Series for BBC-2 and The Learning Channel.

The story of planet Earth, transmitted November - December 1998.

A big popular and critical hit with audiences of up to 3.2 million. Winner of the American Geophysical Union’s Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism.

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1994-96:     Series Producer  Traces of Guilt

6 x 50 mins for BBC-2 and the Arts & Entertainment Network.

Science in the fight against crime. As Crime Science the series was nominated for a Cable Ace award for Best Documentary Series.

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