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For More Information Contact: Avi Federgreen | 416.898.3456 | Www For more information contact: Avi Federgreen | 416.898.3456 | www.indiecanent.com A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE RISE OF CANADIAN ROCK BAND THE SHEEPDOGS FROM OBSCURITY TO THE COVER OF ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE, AND THROUGH THE RECORDING OF THEIR NEXT - AND MOST IMPORTANT - ALBUM. Synopsis In January of 2011, The Sheepdogs were an unknown rock band from Saskatoon, Canada. They were touring in a broken van, playing a brand of vintage rock music that everyone told them would never get radio play. But after winning a place on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine, everything changed. After such a meteoric rise to fame, what happens next? How do The Sheepdogs prove they’re more than a band who won a contest? The Sheepdogs Have At It follows the guys into a Nashville recording studio as they make their new album with producer Patrick Carney from The Black Keys. The band’s fate rests upon the success of this new record, and all eyes are upon them. All the while, we follow The Sheepdogs to live performances all over North America, as they win over fans, one audience at a time, with their unique brand of vintage rock and roll, which, it turns out, radio audiences are responding to. This is the story of four young men standing on the brink of superstardom, who now, more than ever, must prove themselves to the world. It’s also a look inside a changing music industry and the art of tactical manipulation by the band’s support network of management, marketing and agents who must work miracles with limited resources. But most of all, The Sheepdogs Have At It is about doing what you love and staying true to what you believe in, no matter what the cost. For more information contact: Avi Federgreen | 416.898.3456 | www.indiecanent.com DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT John Barnard The situation was almost absurd, in both its urgency and magnitude. I had been hired to make my first feature-length film about a band I didn’t know, just a few days before the first scheduled shoot. With only an elementary understanding that these strangers had won a contest that had rocketed them to fame, I headed to Saskatoon to begin principal. Straight away, I got my crew rolling, capturing everything I could, hoping it would unfold into some logical narrative. What would be interesting about this? My worst fear was that I would descend into some sort of reality-TV nightmare where juvenile subjects spent all their screen time yelling at each other. I was delighted to discover the opposite. I found The Sheepdogs to be thoughtful and ambitious guys who cared about each other as much as their work. The lack of superficial conflict was welcome because it forced me to dig deeper into the narrative and find a more interesting story. This type of working -observing from a “fly on the wall” perspective- is something new to me, and very unnatural. But that’s how I did it. I entered the edit suite with a very rough outline and completely wrote the story while assembling the images. For the most part, the narrative unfolds in the chronological order it was shot. The band welcomed me into their lives and helped all they could. They insisted only upon one thing – that nothing be contrived. And so, the viewer’s experience will be similar to the experience I had as a filmmaker and I hope, a natural portrait of The Sheepdogs. For more information contact: Avi Federgreen | 416.898.3456 | www.indiecanent.com PRODUCERS STATEMENT Kyle Bornais After years of making documentaries about subjects such as Sitting Bull, Nazis and Big Foot, I, or more precisely the people around me decided it was time to make rock docs. So began my journey with my first feature doc, We’re the Weakerthans, We’re from Winnipeg. This film directly led to Justin Rebello from Super Channel calling me about producing a film on another prairie band. I knew of The Sheepdogs as they had just played a free show in downtown Winnipeg a few weeks before this call but that was where my knowledge ended. But I love music, and I love film, so merging the two again seemed like a great idea. I continued the conversation with Justin and he told me that Spenny (Kenny vs. Spenny) had brought him an idea to do a film on The Sheepdogs but that for scheduling reasons they needed to take a step back. This sounded too good to be true, a broadcaster calling me (while I was sick at home) and offering a license to make a film that before now I didn’t know existed. So I asked him, what’s the catch? I mean there had to be a catch… this call was essentially handing me a close to funded film. And that’s when Justin said flat out…. “you need to be in production in 3 days in Saskatchewan. And we need a director”… Okay so there was a catch. I called John Barnard and asked him to make this movie and to learn everything about this band in 24 hours. I then called my go-to DOP, Dave Gaudet and confirmed his availability. With those two guys on board I knew I could get the rest of my crew so I booked the trip. And before I had even started a budget we were in principal photography. The contract from Justin came a month later and three months after that we were done production. And then eight months after that we finished post production. I would like to say that I normally don’t work like this, that normally movies take years to come together and even then often don’t get made. But the truth is, in the years I have been making movies if I have learned only one thing it’s that when making film, there is no normally. We take risks, sometimes they fall apart but every once in a while we get to produce The Sheepdogs Have At It. For more information contact: Avi Federgreen | 416.898.3456 | www.indiecanent.com Swerving playfully among genres, John Barnard’s eclectic work as a director runs the gamut between The Comedy Network’s dramatic series House Party, the Hugo award-winning television documentary Lost Bones: In Search of Sitting Bull’s Grave, and show-running director on all 24 episodes of the APTN’ reality series Warriors: TKO. In short, working as a director in Canadian television has given him the chance to savor everything. In addition to directing, Barnard is also partner, executive producer, and writer at Farpoint Films, an award-winning Canadian production company, which he co- founded in 2000. Through it all, he still manages to experiment with filmmaking, drawing on the resources of his company to make his own films. Kyle Bornais is a Gemini nominated Producer who has Produced and Executive Produced film and television for the Canadian and International marketplace. A short-list of Kyle’s producing credits include The Comedy Network series House Party, a hilarious comedy about a party that goes awry, Wild Cherry a feature film comedy starring Rob Schnei- der, Rumer Willis, Tania Raymonde, and Kristin Cavallari, the feature documentary We’re The Weakerthans, We’re from Winnipeg” and the 1st season of The Medicine Line airing on APTN in 2013. For more information contact: Avi Federgreen | 416.898.3456 | www.indiecanent.com THE SHEEPDOGS BIO “It’s an isolated city,” begins Ewan Currie, vocalist and guitarist for Saskatoon, SK-based rock and roll outfit The Sheepdogs about how their home base in the Canadian prairies shaped his band’s sound. “It really gave us the free- dom to do our own thing; we never felt the need to be a part of an existing scene or trend.” Some listeners may argue that the sounds soaring from their speakers while listening to the band’s latest EP, Five Easy Pieces, or preceding full-length, Learn & Burn, are familiar relics of decades past, and they’d be right; however, it’s the manner in which The Sheepdogs borrow bits from classic, psychedelic, and boogie rock iconoclasts like Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Allman Brothers, and The Grateful Dead and mix them with modern rock sensibilities that really sets them apart. From the always silky-smooth three-part vocal harmonies prominent in tracks like “Why?” or the single “I Don’t Know” through to the dual-guitar interplay and pulsing rhythmic beds found on, well, pretty much every tune, The Sheep- dogs don’t so much bring listeners “back in time” as they do weave the past with the present for an undeniable aural experience that appeals to audiences of all ages. That appeal was recently proven when The Sheepdogs, via 1.5 million public votes, were declared the winners of a contest that found them as the first unsigned band to grace the cover of iconic rock rag Rolling Stone and, subse- quently, landed them a deal with Atlantic Records. To the many that first caught wind of this decade-defying musical force surrounding that swirl of media attention, they may seem like something of an overnight success, though in reality, The Sheepdogs are anything but. “Being from a small town, we were all looking to get out there – maybe try some new things,” says bassist Ryan Gullen about how he, Currie, drummer Sam Corbett, and guitarist Leot Hanson first came together to make music. All fans of the same kind of meat-and-potatoes rock and roll from the past, as well as its resurgence in the music of acts like The White Stripes or Kings Of Leon, it was their mutual musical mindsets that made for an undeniable chemistry.
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