McKay Daines - BIO

McKay Daines is in pre-production on his latest feature film, a suspense comedy, The Return of the Ripper. He wrote the script with Jimmy Chunga and will produce and direct the film. It is being made by his production company Triomphe Communications, INC., and is scheduled to begin principal photography in May 2008. Filming will be in Utah, Nevada and England. (www.returnoftheripper.com)
 
McKay Daines was a Producer for Friends for Life a feature film made by Flynn-Daines Productions. Principal photography ended August, 2007, and the film is being sold worldwide by Grizzly Adams Productions. (http://www.grizzlyadams.tv/fflpromo/index.html) (www.flynn-daines.com)
 
Daines produced and directed the romantic comedy Heber Holiday (www.heberholiday.com) in the winter of 2007. He co-wrote it with his brother Cameron Daines and it stars Torrey DeVitto, KC Clyde, and Erin Chambers. It is premiered at the Temecula Valley International Film Festival in California September 2007 and won both the Best of Fest and the Best Feature Film Audience award. (http://www.tviff.com/news.html#091607a)
 
Heber Holiday was also an official selection at the Amador Film Festival in California, the Park City Film and Music Festival, and is the opening night Gala Premiere film for the 2008 Foursite Film Festival. (http://www.foursitefilmfest.com/). The film is represented internationally by MovieBank and Quantum Releasing.
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McKay was the Executive Producer, Writer and Director of the romantic comedy The Dance, which was released to wide acclaim in theatres April 6, 2007 (www.cometothedance.com) The film won the Storyteller Award at the Redemptive Film Festival in November 2006 and was released worldwide on DVD September 2007 (Buy it at Amazon.com).
 
The Dance is based on an award winning play by Carol Lynn Pearson and stars KC Clyde, Michael Flynn, Kari Hawker, Scott Christopher, Joyce Cohen, and Monique Lanier. It is also being released on network cable stations and on DVD internationally as The Power of Love by GAP productions. The film can also be downloaded to your IPOD at (http://www.ishowstogo.com/root.php/ishowstogo/view?id=113)
 
Daines is Chairman and founded with Michael Flynn -- Flynn-Daines Productions. They announced at the 2006 VSDA Convention in Las Vegas that they are joining with Grizzly Adams Productions to produce highly emotional "Capra-esque" dramatic films for family audiences worldwide.
McKay is also the co-writer, producer, and director of the feature film Dream Weaver, a romantic comedy starring such Native American talent such as Ray Tracey, who is also the Executive Producer. The film is scheduled to be shot in fall of 2008.
 
McKay released in 2004 -- The Cats of Storm Mountain -- an action adventure book in the same genre as Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. It is currently being developed into an animated feature film. (www.catsofstorm.com)
 
Daines was the Research PRODUCER for In the Face of Evil (www.inthefaceofevil.com) a documentary based on the acclaimed Pulitzer-nominated Reagan's War by Peter Schweizer. It was released in US theatres in 2004 and was the Best Documentary winner of both the American Film Renaissance Film Festival and the Liberty Film Festival. McKay is also the Executive Producer and screenwriter for Forest of Mirrors, an espionage thriller also based on Schweizer's book.
 
McKay is a partner with Ron Maxwell (Gettysburg, Gods and Generals) as a PRODUCER of Maxwell's Joan of Arc, a trilogy produced in association with Fildebroc Productions of France. Bob Rehme, former President of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, is an Executive Producer for the film. Information for the film can be found at: (http://www.ronmaxwell.com/virginwarrior.html)
 
McKay is the producer, director and co-writer, with Richard Stefanik, of The Wanderers, a feature film based on the 1776 secret histories of Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, to be shot in England. (www.thewanderers.info)
McKay Daines is developing as a writer, director and producer -- Lakota Dawn, a feature film of a best-selling novel by Janelle Taylor, who has sold over 46 million books-- NIGHTWAY based on McKay's original screenplay about a covert intelligence agent fighting terrorism in Europe and the US, and A Week With Pedro written with Spanish filmmaker Jose Oliveira.
 
McKay was the writer, producer and director of the Native American cable television entertainment talk show series Windows to Our Ways, as well as the director of such cable shows as 10 For Bluegrass, The Family Night Series, and The Nashville Connection, which won a 2001 TELLY AWARD for outstanding cable series.