David Sington

He started his career in 1982 at the BBC World Service as a studio manager and subsequently a talk producer.{{cite news|url=http://www.indiewire.com/people/2007/01/park_city_07_da.html|title=David Sington: "At the end of 90 minutes the audience does feel it really knows these remarkable men."|date=16 January 2007|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301185824/http://www.indiewire.com/people/2007/01/park_city_07_da.html|archivedate=1 March 2007|url-status=dead|publisher=indieWIRE}} In 1987 he moved to television and thereafter produced eight documentary films and two major documentary film series for the BBC. In 1999, he left the BBC to form his own production company DOX Productions, Ltd. Since then, he has made multiple television films. ,{{cite web|url=http://www.agu.org/inside/awards/bios/sington_david1999.html|title=Sington Receives the 1999 Walter Sullivan Award|date=|publisher=American Geophysical Union}}{{cite web|url=http://www.finnmark2007.com/expedition.html|title=Finnmark 2007 The Expedition}} as well as seven feature documentary films.

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.[https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/pamela-neville-sington-hjzhzhq52 Pamela Neville-Sington.] The Times, 15 March 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2017. {{subscription required}}

In 1999, he was awarded the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism.{{cite web|url = http://festival.sundance.org/filmguide/popup.aspx?film=3316|title = IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON UK 2006 Director: David Sington|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071218040021/http://festival.sundance.org/filmguide/popup.aspx?film=3316|archivedate = 18 December 2007}} In 2000, he was made an Honorary member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society{{cite web|url=http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/prizes/honor.sington.shtml|title=David Sington, 2000 Honorary Member|publisher=Sigma xi: The Scientific Research Society}} His film Project Poltergeist won a prestigious Grierson Award in 2004.

• 2020: A to Z: the Secret History of Writing, for PBS, Arte and BBC (DOX Productions/Films à Cinq){{cite web |title=TV & Film: The Secret History of Writing |url=https://the-past.com/review/tv-film/the-secret-history-of-writing/ |website=The Past |publisher=The Past, Ltd. |access-date=3 July 2022}}{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.davidsington.com/about-1 |website=David Sington: documentrary filmmaker |access-date=3 July 2022}}
• 2018: Mercury 13
• 2015: The Fear of 13{{cite web|title=The Fear of 13|url=http://www.thefearof13.com/|publisher=Dogwoof Ltd.|accessdate=4 January 2016}} (Watch Free Documentaries Online{{cite web |title=The Fear of 13 |url=https://watchdocumentaries.com/the-fear-of-13/ |website=WatchDocumentaries |publisher=WatchDocumentaries.com |access-date=7 April 2022}})(Netflix)
• 2011: The Flaw (animated by Peter J. Richardson){{cite web|url=http://www.indiewire.com/2011/01/meet-the-2011-sundance-filmmakers-the-flaw-director-david-sington-244050/|title=Meet the 2011 Sundance Filmmakers | "The Flaw" Director David Sington|work=IndieWire|date=3 January 2011|accessdate=21 July 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2011/film/markets-festivals/the-flaw-1117944364/|author=Robert Koehler|title=Review: 'The Flaw'|work=Variety|date=23 January 2011|accessdate=21 July 2016}}
• 2007: In the Shadow of the Moon (2007 film)
• 2006: Dimming of the Sun (PBS Nova)
• 2005: Global Dimming (BBC Horizon)

He has co-written the following books:

• {{cite book |author1 = Lamb, Simon|author2 = Sington, David|title = Earth Story: The Shaping of Our World|publisher = Princeton Univ Press|date = September 1998|pages = [https://archive.org/details/earthstoryshapin00lamb/page/256 256pp]|isbn = 978-0-691-00229-3|url-access = registration|url = https://archive.org/details/earthstoryshapin00lamb/page/256

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• {{cite book| author = Neville-Sington, Pamela, Sington, David and Songton, David| title = Paradise Dreamed| pages = 256pp| publisher = Bloomsbury Publishing PLC| date = 4 November 1993| isbn = 978-0-7475-1293-6 }}

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