Sam Dunn
Sam Dunn performing live with Burn to Black, 2005
Born	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	director, musician, anthropologist

Sam Dunn is a Canadian anthropologist and film-maker whose work focuses on the culture of heavy metal.

[edit] Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

Dunn's first film, co-directed with Scot McFadyen and Jessica Wise, was released in 2005. The film follows Dunn on a journey to document the origins, culture and appeal of heavy metal.

[edit] Global Metal

Released in 2008, Sam directed a new film, titled Global Metal. In the film, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West’s most maligned musical genre – heavy metal – has impacted the world’s cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world’s emerging extreme music scenes — from Indonesian death metal to Israeli Oriental metal and Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal, etc. The film reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who aren’t just absorbing metal from the West – they’re transforming it, and creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism.^[1]

[edit] Iron Maiden: Flight 666

Dunn co-wrote and co-directed the 2009 documentary Iron Maiden: Flight 666 with Scot McFadyen. The film chronicles the band's 2008 tour in which a converted 757 was flown from country to country by Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson.

[edit] Musical activities

Dunn also formerly played bass for the Toronto extreme metal band, Burn to Black; they disbanded in November 2008.^[2]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Sam Dunn at the Internet Movie Database
• IRON MAIDEN: FLIGHT 666 - THE MOVIE
• Metal: A Headbanger's Journey Official site
• Global Metal official site
• Burn to Black Official MySpace page
• Burn to Black profile at Encyclopaedia Metallum
• Interview with Sam Dunn About Global Metal/A Headbanger's JourneyTemplate:Canadian-bio-stub