Banger Films Explained

Banger Films
Owner:Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn
Type:Production company
Foundation:2004
Location City:Toronto, Ontario
Location Country:Canada
Key People:Scot McFadyen (director/producer)
Sam Dunn (director/producer/host)

Banger Films is a Canadian film and television production company, which specializes in documentary films and television series on music and culture.[1] The company was launched in 2004 by Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn to create and distribute their first film, .

The company has since produced theatrical documentaries and television series, as well as live concert DVDs by rock and heavy metal musicians.[2]

In 2011, Banger Films started a YouTube channel, Bangertv. Most of the channel's content for the first four years of its existence were interviews and trailers of documentaries. Starting in 2015, Bangertv started making album reviews (including tag team/no beef reviews) and hosting weekly live streams. They have since also started a "Best of" series for certain years in the history of Heavy Metal. As of February 2022, Bangertv has 334,000 subscribers.[3]

The company's 2014 film Super Duper Alice Cooper won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015.[4]

On September 10, 2021, Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine debuted at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.

Filmography

YearFilm
2005
2008Global Metal
2009
2009Joe Bonamassa: Live from the Royal Albert Hall
2010
2011Metal Evolution (series)
2011
2012En Vivo!
2014Super Duper Alice Cooper
2015Rock Icons (TV series)
Satan Lives
2016Hip-Hop Evolution
2017Long Time Running
2020ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band From Texas
2021Triumph - Rock & Roll Machine
2021K-Pop Evolution[5]
2021This Is Pop
2022Sex with Sue
2024

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Religion, heavy metal collide . . 2013-06-04 . 2021-01-14 . Mike . Delvin .
  2. "Who the heck is Alice?; Super Duper Alice Cooper the latest doc from B.C.'s Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen". Vancouver Sun, April 28, 2014.
  3. https://www.youtube.com/c/BangerTV "BangerTV YouTube channel"
  4. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/canadian-screen-awards-2015-mommy-big-film-winner-orphan-black-takes-top-tv-trophies-1.2977396 "Canadian Screen Awards 2015: Mommy big film winner, Orphan Black takes top TV trophies"
  5. Web site: K-Pop Evolution is YouTube's seven-part K-Pop documentary - Music Ally. April 2021 .