IRON MAIDEN: 'Flight 666' Documentary To Premiere At SXSW Film Festival

British heavy rock legends IRON MAIDEN, in association with EMI Records, Universal (USA),Banger Productions and Arts Alliance Media, will release a feature-length documentary film into cinemas worldwide on April 21, 2009. The North American premiere of "Iron Maiden: Flight 666' will be part of the prestigious SXSW film festival which runs March 13-22 in Austin, Texas. More details will be revealed soon.

A one-minute teaser for IRON MAIDEN's forthcoming feature-length documentary can be viewed below.

"Iron Maiden: Flight 666' follows the bandmembers on the first leg of their "Somewhere Back In Time World Tour" in February and March of 2008 as they experienced the most ambitious and adventurous tour in rock history.

The MAIDEN tour plan was something that had never been attempted before on such a grand scale. Circumnavigating the globe, the band flew in a specially customized Boeing 757 airliner with their crew and 12 tons of music and stage equipment on board, playing 23 sold-out stadium and arena shows in 13 countries in just 45 days, travelling 70,000 km and performing to almost half a million fans.

The band was accompanied everywhere by award-winning documentary makers Banger Productions from Toronto in Canada, who have received international critical acclaim for their previous movies "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" and recently "Global Metal". Producer/presenter Sam Dunn and his team bring an intimate, behind-the-scenes view of this remarkable journey, with a close look at the logistics involved and following Team Maiden in the cockpit, on the plane and on and offstage, getting to the heart of this global adventure of a band that has very rarely even let cameras backstage before.

Shot in high definition and with superb 5.1 surround sound, mixed by the band's producer Kevin "Caveman" Shirley, "Flight 666" brings to the screen all the drama, excitement and hysteria that followed the band around the world every time Ed Force One (the band's plane) touched down in a new country. The film documents the intensity of the punishing show schedules, the struggle with the time zones, the pressures of ensuring that every performance matched the energy of the many thousands of ecstatic and expectant fans from many cultural backgrounds, unusual angles from the spectacular shows... and, of course, the fun had on the way!

A special international "Iron Maiden Day" is being planned for April 21 with simultaneous showings of "Iron Maiden: Flight 666" in selected digital cinemas around the world.