Scot McFadyen

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Scot McFadyen
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

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 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[

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.[1]

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

Tribeca Film Festival in New York on April 29,[2] winning the festival's Audience Award.[3]

Filmography

Year Film
2005 Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
2008 Global Metal
2009 Iron Maiden: Flight 666
2010
Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage
2011 Metal Evolution
2014 Super Duper Alice Cooper
2024 Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

References

  1. ^ Mann, Michael (October 2005). "Heavy Metal". The Nerve Magazine. The Nerve Magazine. Retrieved October 27, 2007.
  2. ^ Liss, Sarah (April 30, 2010). "Living in the limelight: Canadian rock legends Rush get the documentary treatment". CBC News. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
  3. ^ CBC News staff (May 2, 2010). "Rush doc nabs Tribeca audience prize". CBC News. Retrieved December 26, 2011. {{cite web}}: External link in |author= (help)

External links

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