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Just stumbled across this and well done to the marketing team over at the conference for exploiting social media and Facebook ads. It looks like Sam will be attending the Noctis Metal Music Conference to be held in Calgary, Alberta on September 24 of this year.

Noctis IV Metal Fest and Conference - Sept 23, 24 2010 Calgary, Alberta

The conference is part of the Metal Fest which is in it’s 4th incarnation and this year will feature a headlining act by Germany’s thrash metal hero’s SODOM. Geez I remember mostly Persecution Mania but I’m sure there was some scratchy, shitty cassete bootleg of Obsessed by Cruelty somewhere. Rather than rehash a bunch of info already spashed across the event pages I’ll just direct you to the pertinent Metal Info.

Here is the main link for all things Noctis IV Metal Fest and Conference

Check out this Facebook page for event info for the Noctis Metal Music Conference

Check out this Facebook page for even info for the Noctis IV Metal Fest

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Honestly I can’t really say. It’s been balls out travelling and interviews for Metal Evolution ever since the Rush release and Traverse City screenings. I’m sure (given the handful of you that might stumble across this post) some of you may have bumped into some of the Banger crew around the globe. It would be great to have some more interaction here. Tell us where you may have been when you caught a glimpse of the ever elusive Mr Dunn, or Mr Mcfadyen. Perhaps you ran into señor Hawkes or Madamme Mauro . A few places where you have have caught wind of the team might have been New York, Toronto, Germany, France, Slovenia, Norway and a shitload of other countries on route. That’s just in the last couple months… It is simply mind numbing how much traveling these guys do and how hard the whole team works.

Okay back to Rush, I don’t give these guys nearly enough props but the folks over at Rush is a Band do remarkable work. Their research and sometimes ‘early news’ is not found anywhere else online.

This funny ‘Rush fan VS Kiss fan‘ post with some hilarious fan quotes drifted through my news filter. Some of us humans are quite emotionally charged about certain music personalities hey..

Okay that is a bit of a long title but it communicates the topic succinctly. If you’ve been paying attention to any Rush related news feeds recently, you’ll have seen that there was a flurry of traffic for this story starting on Tuesday. This is fantastic news for the Banger Films team and Rush who will see their film distributed across a much broader geographical range.

The Toronto based film production, distribution and consulting company Tricon, is also on the hook to distribute the Metal Evolution series which is currently in production at various spots around the Metal Globe.

Here is a piece from www.channelcanada.com

Tricon Films & Television, one of North America’s strongest independent production and distribution companies, is proud to be working with award-winning production company Banger Films. With this new relationship, Tricon has acquired the international television rights to the recently theatrically released documentary RUSH: BEYOND THE LIGHTED STAGE, which chronicles the legendary band over the past 40 years. Tricon is also set to distribute METAL EVOLUTION: THE SERIES (8 X 60), which is slated for the spring of 2011 on VH1 Classics.  “Banger Films founders Scot McFayden and Sam Dunn bring a wealth of talent, creativity and heart to their projects,” said Andrea Gorfolova, President of Tricon Films & Television. “Tricon is thrilled to be joining creative forces and distributing their products with the same passion and dedication.”

Several sites have featured the story as it broke and they are listed them below as they appeared in the news feed. You could call them the winners of the Break the News race.

The Hollywood Reporter

Village Gamer

C21 Media.Net

Channel Canada

Those are naturally a rehash of the original press release but it also demonstrates that they have done well to present their content in a way which Google is easily able to send to their news feeds.

Yep. Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen from Banger Films will appear on a discussion panel with Michael Moore at the Traverse City Film Festival in support of the recently released Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary. The fellows will also be on hand for a post screening Q&A immediately following the 2 screenings of Beyond the Lighted Stage;

6th Annual Traverse City Film Festival

The following citation is from the Panels area of the website;

http://www.traversecityfilmfest.org/traverse-city-film-festival-movies/filmmaker-panels/

SATURDAY, JULY 31
“Here Comes Trouble: Eight Documentary Filmmakers Tell Us How They Did It and Lived to Tell”
It’s our annual documentary smack down, during which Michael Moore will get some of TCFF10?s great nonfiction filmmakers to tell stories that will make the local NPR station wish they hadn’t agreed to broadcast the panels! This year’s doc-makers will discuss how they make their films happen “by any means necessary,” bringing in stories from the field that will delight, amuse, shock and inspire. Panelists may include Jeff Deutchman (“11/4/08?), Neil Diamond (“Reel Injun”), Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen (“Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage”), Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith (“The Most Dangerous Man in America”), Josh Fox (“GasLand”), Mark Lewis (“Cane Toads: The Conquest”), Nicolas Rossier (“American Radical”), Lee Storey (“Smile ‘Til It Hurts: The Up with People Story”) and Michael Webber (“The Elephant in the Living Room”).
Sponsored by: Bay Bread Company and Bob & Carol Goff

If you are attending the TCFF and care to share your experiences, please don’t hesitate to let us know. Drop us a comment or 5.

The Panel will be happening on the morning of Saturday, July 31 at the City Opera House located at 112 1/2 E. Front St. Get there for 8:30 for tickets which will be handed out free on a first come first served basis. Read up on this years Panels here.

Should be an amazing morning!

Iron Maiden Flight 666 is set to be featured at this years Heavy Mtl festival in Montreal. If you’re anywhere in the area, don’t miss this chance to catch the award winning Banger Films documentary on the big screen!

From the Heavy MTL website:

Heavy MTL is North-America’s premier destination heavy music festival and takes place in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

The first edition of the festival took place in June 2008 and saw the likes of Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe, Disturbed, Three Days Grace, Dethklok, Anthrax, Type O Negative, Mastodon, and many others shred their way through an intense two-day celebration of heavy music.

After taking a break in 2009, Heavy MTL organizers are committed to making Heavy MTL 2010 the place to be for heavy music fans in 2010.

Heavy MTL 2010 will be held on July 24^th and 25^th in the breathtaking site that is Parc Jean-Drapeau at Île Saint-Hélène, Montréal.

Also catch the incredible documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil. A gut wrenching, hilarious and emotion filled glimpse into the past and present lives of the members of the Heavy Metal legends, Anvil.

Both movies will be shown in stark contrast to each other with a very special Q&A with the members of Anvil as well as Sam and Scot from Banger Films.

In case you missed that last part = Don’t miss this chance to see last years 2 best music documentary’s on Iron Maiden and Anvil as well as an up close and personal Question period with Sam Dunn, Scot Mcfadyen and members of Anvil!

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Anvil: The Story of Anvil

Iron Maiden Flight 666