In 1998 Pezz changed their name to Billy Talent after the fictional character in Micheal Turner 's Hard Core Logo book ( later adapted to film by Bruce McDonald ) . D'Sa co-produced Billy Talent II with Gavin Brown . He also did art direction and package design on the album . He received co-direction credit for the video " Fallen Leaves " , for which the band was awarded Best Video and Best Rock Video at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards . Released in September 2012 , the fourth album of the band , '' Dead Silence '' , was produced entirely by D'Sa . He was nominated for Producer of the Year at the 2017 Juno Awards for his work on the band 's fifth album , '' Afraid of Heights ''
2017 Juno Awards
Juno Awards of 2017
Ian D'Sa