Jamin Winans

Jamin Winans (born December 4, 1977) is an American filmmaker, writer, editor, and music composer. He is known for his short film Spin (2005) and feature films 11:59 (2005), Ink (2009) and The Frame (2014).

Winans was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and moved with his family to Denver, Colorado when he was five. Later moving to nearby Evergreen, Colorado, he attended Bergen Elementary, and began making movies with pieces of string and cardboard at age 10. In an extended interview with Jason Heller of Westword, Winans recalls,

We didn't have a TV until I was ten... My parents were just not fans of having a TV in the house. I remember when I was little, my dad rented a TV and a VCR one night just to watch The Blues Brothers. It was crazy. It was a big thing. For me, seeing TV or a movie had a huge impact. It was magical.

After high school at Evergreen High School, he attended Columbia College Hollywood in Los Angeles before dropping out and pursuing filmmaking in Colorado.

Winans created Double Edge Films in 1998. Winans plays various roles in each film, most significantly as writer, director, and editor, and more recently composing scores; his spouse, Kiowa Winans, is intimately involved with the effort, in roles as producer, but also in art direction, and sound and costume design. Jamin Winans began showing shorts at film festivals around the U.S. in 2001.

Winans made his first short film, Blanston, (2003), a film depicting four people trying to pull an insurance scam on the company for which they work. His next, a short called The Maze (2003), is about a physicist trying to understand the science of the universe. Next, Winans released Spin (2005), the story of a DJ trying to fix a chain of events unfolding a city's downtown area, a film that has won multiple film festival awards, including Best Live Action Short and The Bruce Corwin Award at the 2006 Santa Barbara Independent Film Festival [7] (and has >15 million hits at YouTube). His first feature, 11:59 (2005), portrays a photojournalist trying to remember what happened in the last twenty-four hours of his life, and premiered at the 2005 Montreal World Film Festival.

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