Damian Kindler

Creator/Executive Producer – Sanctuary / CEO, Stage 3 Media Inc.

Damian Kindler is a fourteen year veteran writer/producer of network and cable television, including Stargate: SG-1 (the longest running sci fi series in history) and Stargate: Atlantis, two of the most popular science fiction TV series worldwide. Damian has been involved in the writing and production of over 200 hours of television for some of the most established names in broadcasting, including Sony Pictures Entertainment, MGM Television, Warner Bros. Television, Sci Fi Channel and Fox Network. He has worked with many internationally acclaimed actors including Richard Dean Anderson, David Carradine, Beau Bridges, Dan Aykroyd, and Dan Castellaneta (“The Simpsons”). Damian was nominated for three Leo Awards in 2004 and 2005 for excellence in TV writing and producing by the British Columbia Film and Television Association.

Amanda Tapping

“Magnus”/Executive Producer - Sanctuary

Amanda Tapping is best known as the intelligent and beautiful Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter in the hit series, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis for The Sci-Fi Channel. Tapping was born in Rochford, England and raised in Toronto, Canada with her three brothers. Recently Amanda had the pleasure to star on another show forSci-Fi, hosting a new series Proof Positive, exploring the science front of fact versus fiction. She has also guest starred on such television series as The X-Files, Due South, Forever Knight , Kung-Fu: The Legend Continues, The Newsroom, Millennium and The Outer Limits. In addition, she was a series regular on the Disney series Flash Forward. Her other television credits include Lessons in Love, Remembrance, The Haunting of Lisa, and Degree of Guilt. More recently she appeared in the miniseries Traffic.