McKay Daines - Writer, Producer, Director

McKay Daines is a writer, producer, and director. He works primarily in film, but has a new fiction book The Cats of Storm Mountain that had it’s worldwide internet web page opening November 2003. It is an adventure book for children, youth, and adults like Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings.

McKay is currently the writer, producer and director of Dream Weaver, a romantic comedy feature film starring such Native American talent as Wes Studi, Molly Culver, Jana, Drew Lacapa, and Ray Tracey, who is also Executive Producer. The film is to be shot in New Mexico in the Spring 2004.

McKay is also an Executive Producer and screenwriter for Forest of Mirrors, an espionage thriller based on the acclaimed Pulitzer nominated Reagan’s War by Peter Schweizer. He is also an Executive Producer and a screenwriter for a documentary based on the same book, and is also a Co-Executive Producer for the mini-series based on Peter Schweizer’s new book The Bush Dynasty.

McKay is also a Producer of Ron Maxwell's Joan of Arc, a $70 million feature film in association with Fildebroc Productions of France, starring Albert Finney, Derek Jacobi, and Cary Elwes. Bob Rehme, former President of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, is an Executive Producer, as well as Pierre Spengler, winner of the Golden Palm in Cannes 1995. Information can be found at: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0151138/fullcredits.

McKay is in development as the producer for a feature film The Wanderers, which he co-wrote, based on the 1776 secret histories of Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, to be shot in England. McKay is also developing as the writer, director and producer, Lakota Dawn, a feature film of a best-selling novel by Janelle Taylor, who has sold over 46 million books. The film is to be shot in British Columbia, Canada.

McKay was the writer, producer and director of the cable television entertainment talk show series Windows to Our Ways, as well as the director for such cable shows as 10 for Bluegrass, The Family Night series, and The Nashville Connection series which won a 2001 TELLY Award for outstanding cable series.