Sam Dunn

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Sam Dunn at a concert with Burn to Black (2005)

Sam Dunn (born March 20, 1974 in Stroud , England ) is a Canadian director , anthropologist and producer of documentaries with a focus on topics from heavy metal . Together with Scot McFadyen, he runs the production company Banger Films in Toronto, Canada .

Life

Born in England, Dunn grew up in Victoria, Canada . His interest in heavy metal was piqued at the age of nine, at 15 he hosted a radio show that only played metal. As a teenager he played bass in various rock and metal bands. In 1993 he met Scot McFadyen. Dunn was the bassist for funk rock band Fungkus at the time , which enabled McFadyen to perform at a concert during the protests at Clayoquot Sound . A few years later, Dunn moved to the east coast of Canada, where he began studying social anthropology at York University in Toronto . He completed this in 2001 with an MA .

Act

While graduating, Dunn initially planned to write a book on the history of heavy metal. Scot McFadyen convinced him of the idea of ​​producing a documentary about the genre instead. For the next three years, Dunn and McFadyen were busy building up film finance . After a Canadian film distributor and the Canadian state film subsidy had given advances, filming began in June 2004. Dunn and McFadyen received additional financial support from Dunn's family. The result of this work was the documentary Metal - A Headbanger's Journey published in 2005 . The second project was a film about the global metal scene and its fans and was released in 2007 under the title Global Metal . In 2004, while making the first film, Dunn met Iron Maiden's band manager Rod Smallwood. Through his intervention, the filmmakers were given permission to document an Iron Maiden flight around the world in the band's own plane. The film was released in 2009 under the title Iron Maiden: Flight 666 . In 2010 he released another documentary, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage , in which he pays tribute to the Canadian rock band Rush .

Already after the release of Metal - A Headbanger's Journey , voices from Metal fans were loud, who said that the subject of Metal could not be sufficiently illuminated in such a short film. Spurred on by this, the series Metal Evolution was created at the end of 2011 in collaboration with the Canadian music channel MuchMore , which, in addition to the history of metal, also deals with individual subgenres such as Thrash Metal or Nu Metal .

For Metal - A Headbanger's Journey , Dunn and McFadyen received the 2007 Gemini Award for “Best Screenplay in a Documentary or Series”.

Documentaries

Series

literature

  • Holger Stratmann: The metal dream job . Interview with Sam Dunn. In: Rock Hard . No. 282 , November 2010, p. 52-54 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Director Sam Dunn's on a heavy metal mission. (No longer available online.) YLife - York's Newsletter for Students, March 20, 2006, archived from the original July 11, 2009 ; accessed on December 4, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.yorku.ca
  2. ^ Andres Castro: Sam Dunn Interview. Tartarean Desire Webzine, September 19, 2005, accessed October 4, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Fine Arts grads win Gemini industry & craft awards. (No longer available online.) YLife - York's Newsletter for Students, October 22, 2007, archived from the original on July 10, 2009 ; accessed on December 4, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.yorku.ca
personal data
SURNAME Dunn, Sam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Stroud