Scot McFadyen
{{Short description|Canadian film director and producer}}
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| awards=2007 Gemini Award for Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
2009 SXSW Viewers Choice Award for Iron Maiden: Flight 666
2010 Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award for Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage}}
Scot McFadyen is a Canadian film director, producer and music supervisor whose work focuses on the subculture of heavy metal. He co-owns Toronto-based production company Banger Films with Sam Dunn.
Films
=Metal: A Headbanger's Journey=
=Global Metal=
Released in 2008, McFadyen and Dunn co-directed a new film, Global Metal. In the film, McFadyen and Dunn set out to discover how the West’s most maligned musical genre — heavy metal{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}} — has impacted the world’s cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan, host and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world’s emerging extreme music scenes from Indonesian death metal to Israeli Oriental metal and Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal, etc. The film reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who are not only absorbing metal from the West, but are also transforming it and creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass consumerism.{{cite web | last=Mann | first=Michael | authorlink= | title=Heavy Metal | work=The Nerve Magazine | publisher=The Nerve Magazine | date=October 2005 | url=http://www.thenervemagazine.com/2005/10/article_template.php?id=17 | format= | doi= | accessdate=October 27, 2007}}
=Iron Maiden: Flight 666=
McFadyen and Dunn co-wrote and co-directed the 2009 documentary Iron Maiden: Flight 666. The film chronicles the band's 2008 tour in which a converted Boeing 757 was flown from country to country by vocalist Bruce Dickinson.
=Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage=
In 2009, McFadyen and Dunn started working on a documentary about progressive metal band Rush. The film premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in New York on April 29,{{cite web | last=Liss | first= Sarah | authorlink= | title=Living in the limelight: Canadian rock legends Rush get the documentary treatment | publisher=CBC News | date=April 30, 2010 | url= https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/living-in-the-limelight-1.896013 | doi= | access-date=December 26, 2011}} winning the festival's Audience Award.{{cite web | authorlink= | title=Rush doc nabs Tribeca audience prize | publisher=CBC News | date=May 2, 2010 | url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/rush-doc-nabs-tribeca-audience-prize-1.896012 | doi= | access-date=December 26, 2011}}
Filmography
References
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External links
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- [http://www.bangerfilms.com Banger Films official site]
- [http://www.ironmaiden.com/iron-maiden-flight-666---the-movie.html IRON MAIDEN: FLIGHT 666 - THE MOVIE]
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20040829161226/http://metalhistory.com/ Metal: A Headbanger's Journey official site]}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081217013146/http://www.globalmetalfilm.com/03/GM_03.html Global Metal official site]
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1545103/ Rush: The Documentary page on The Internet Movie Database]
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Category:Film directors from Toronto
Category:Canadian documentary film producers
Category:Canadian people of Scottish descent
Category:Canadian documentary film directors
Category:Directors of Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners for Best Documentary Film