Scot makes Banger Films go. Born in Mississauga, he studied writing at the University of Victoria. In the 1990s he started his own theatre company, directing and producing plays, including David Mamet’s Edmund, and ran the largest music production company on Vancouver Island.
Prior to co-founding Banger Films, Scot worked as a music supervisor and soundtrack producer on film and television projects including Gingers Snaps, Siblings, Queer As Folk, and the cult hit FUBAR.
Scot’s first feature documentary ‘Metal: A Headbangers Journey’, won a Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary and was released theatrically and on DVD in over 40 countries. The success of ‘Metal: A Headbangers Journey’ allowed Scot to grow Banger Films in to one of Canada’s best known documentary film making operations.
Banger’s second feature was ‘Global Metal’. Negotiating a seven week, seven country shoot required Scot’s particular talent for making the impossible, possible and then making over 350 hours of footage in multiple languages make sense.
Scot’s most recent film, Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, explores the 40-year career of Canada’s biggest rock band. The film premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival and took home the Audience Award. He is now in production on an 11-episode documentary series on the history of heavy metal called Metal Evolution, which is scheduled to air on VH1 Classic on 11/11/11.
