People   David Dugan - Chairman David Dugan founded Windfall Films with Oliver Morse and Ian Duncan in 1987.  His strong narrative approach to science and history documentaries has won him many awards, including three Emmys, a Royal Television Society Award and two British Science Writers Awards.  His recent productions include Absolute Zero,  a two part documentary for BBC/WGBH-NOVA/Arte that launched the Science You Can’t See season on BBC4 and Darwin’s Natural Heir,  a profile of the inspirational Harvard biologist, E.O. Wilson.  Currently he is developing a drama on Charles Darwin to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth. Dugan likes the challenge of turning difficult subjects into engaging films. He created and produced the Emmy-award-winning series DNA, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the double helix, which featured most of the key players in the history of this molecule.  He has also tackled  fundamental physics in Reality On The Rocks, a trilogy of films in which the comic actor, Ken Campbell tries to get to grips with Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time. His RTS -nominated six part series The Day The World Took Off was unraveled the underlying causes of the industrial revolution by going backwards in time from a single day in 1830  to 10,000 years ago. This innovative approach to history followed five free-thinking intellectuals as they explored the roots of the modern world. He wrote and directed Mummy: The Inside story, a 3-D theatrical film using CAT scan technology to delve inside the mummified body of Nesperenub which played in theatres at the British Museum and around the world. He is executive producer on many of Windfall’s science and history productions, including   Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Monster Moves, Revealed and Do You Want To Live Forever.  Dugan also shares responsibility for what some claim to be the first reality TV show, The Tourist Trap.  This radical format used hidden cameras to challenge national stereotypes, by comparing the behaviour of four nations on holiday. He was also executive producer on C4’s reality adventure series Lost! Before Windfall Dugan spent ten years at BBC TV in the Science & Features Department and a brief spell at NOVA in Boston. He won a Sunday Times Scholarship, after completing a postgraduate course in Journalism Studies at University College, Cardiff.  His fascination with explosions led him to study chemistry at University College London.     © Windfall Films Limited 2008 | Site map Created by matthackettdesign