About David Stansfield Books
David Stansfield was born in England, but has spent most of his career as a television writer-producer in Canada and the United States. He is a Canadian citizen. With his wife, Denise Boiteau (also a Canadian citizen) David has written and produced some 400 television scripts (documentary, drama, comedy, animation) for TVOntario in Canada (both in English and French), the Public Broadcasting Service in the U.S., the Discovery Channel, NHK, Encyclopedia Britannica and Time-Life. He has also written half-a-dozen feature film screenplays, both originals and re-writes of other people's scripts. His TV productions have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have won over fifty international film and television awards, including the selection of "The Middle East" series in the 1987 Academy Awards Best Educational Documentary category. Again, with Denise - David launched a French-as-a-Second Language TV network. He has also served as Media Delegate to the Gulf States in the Middle East for the Ontario Government. He has a First Class Honors B.A. in Modern Arabic Studies from Durham University and an M.A. in North African Literature (Arabic and French) from Cambridge University, including post-graduate study at the Sorbonne, the University of Toronto, where he did post-graduate work towards a Ph.D. with the late Marshall McLuhan.
