Scot McFadyen is a Canadian film director, film 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
McFadyen's first film, co-directed with Dunn and
Jessica Wise, was released in 2005. The film follows Dunn on a journey to document the origins, culture and appeal of heavy metal. It also explores the themes of heavy metal:
violence,
death,
religion and
Satanism,
gender and
Human sexuality.
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 — 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
death metal to
Oriental metal and
China black metal to
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.
Iron Maiden: Flight 666
McFadyen and Dunn co-wrote and co-directed the 2009 documentary
Iron Maiden: Flight 666. The film chronicles
Iron Maiden'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,
winning the festival's Audience Award.
Filmography
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