Martin Wood takes on the role of both Executive Producer and Director of the groundbreaking new series Sanctuary. Credited with directing more than 50 episodes of the long running sci fi series Stargate SG-1, more than 30 episodes of its spin-off series Stargate Atlantis, and the recent DVD movie Stargate Continuum (which included a spectacular shoot in the High Arctic involving the US Navy), Wood brings a level of expertise to the television genre of science fiction that is unmatched.

In 2007, Martin Wood, along with his former Stargate SG-1 / Stargate Atlantis colleagues Damian Kindler and Amanda Tapping, launched Sanctuary - the first broadcast-quality online series direct to the Internet. Within the first six months of being on the web, Sanctuary received over 3.7 million views and downloads across the Internet.

Now, Wood is behind the camera directing and executive producing Sanctuary for television. With no fear of pushing the envelope of technology, Wood is excited to be filming over 70% of the series on green screen and using the innovative RED camera which shoots at more than double the resolution of traditional high-definition cameras.

Wood has also directed multiple episodes of the series Andromeda, Jeremiah, Earth: Final Conflict, Silk Stalkings, and SCI FI Channel’s The Invisible Man. In the fall of 2000, he directed the feature film The Impossible Elephant which won “Audience Favourite” at the Toronto International Children’s Film Festival and a nomination for a Director’s Guild Award in 2002. In 1998, he wrote and directed the feature film Teenage Space Vampires, shot on location in Romania.

His documentary film credits include writing and directing four episodes of CBC’s Life & Times biography series as well as The Great Run of China, SIDS: A Special Report and If Trees Could Talk: A Study of Intolerance.