Gorillaz, the group led by Damon Albarn and reflected in the drawings of the great Jamie Hewlett, will have their film version, with a documentary film that will be titled bananaz.
The premiere will be online, and yesYou can see it online, starting next April 20, through the web www.babelgum.com. The project manager was the director Ceri Levi, a documentary filmmaker linked to comics and music, who had the difficult task of recording the behind-the-scenes of this particular virtual quartet.
bananaz it will be the first online world premiere in history, and for its landing in the cinemas we will have to wait a few more days, as well as for its DVD edition, scheduled for June 2 of this year.
The president of the site babelgum, Valerio Zingarelli, defined the film as "Shocking, irreverent and exciting", and miles leonard, President of Parlophone Records, has not been left behind in stating that "It is an unconventional film, which is released in an unconventional way, because when the ingredients are that good, who needs conventions?".
The documentary will have statements from all the members who passed through the band (Dennis Hopper, De La Soul, Ibrahim Ferrer, Dangermouse, Dan The Automator, D12, Bootie Brown and Neneh Cherry) and the creative process (musical and graphic) carried out by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. We look forward to bananaz and we celebrate that it is available to everyone when it is released online.