Bananaz

Director: Ceri Levy
Cast: Gorillaz, Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett, Ibrahim Ferrer, Dennis Hopper, De la Soul, D-12, Bootie Brown from The Pharcyde
Runtime: 92 minutes
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screening in: Spotlight Premieres

Screening Times

1:30 PM, Wednesday March 12th - Paramount
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11:00 AM, Saturday March 15th - Paramount
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Synopsis:
BANANAZ takes you behind the scenes on one of the great creative partnerships of our time. For the first time the virtual walls 'OF GORILLAZ' come down and the audience sees the true brain child of Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn; the work that went into the drawings, the animation, the music and the voices. As one radio interviewer puts it, "It's a parallel universe - these guys aren't in the band but they know the animated characters who are". Friend and film maker Ceri Levy decided to document the process and started following these two unlikely pioneers, over a six year period, with his camera.Bananaz is the funny, riotous and compelling film which gives a never seen before account of the working relationship of Albarn and Hewlett.An inspiring, unsanitised, free-wheeling comment on what can be done when creative minds meet in the spirit of collaboration from Ibrahim Ferrer to Dennis Hopper...

Director's Bio:
Ceri Levy is a producer/director whose past work includes music documentaries Starshaped (with long time partner director Matthew Longfellow) and Mali Music (a documentary for BBC4), as well as promos for Blur (End Of A Century and Stereotypes), Elastica (Stutter, Connected, Line Up) and Dodgy (Staying Out For The Summer).Ceri has also worked as a director on the BBC series The First The Last My Everything, and also presented a programme for the Discovery Channel called Making Money From Antiques. As a long term Chelsea fan, Ceri presented a programme for the Chelsea Football Club TV station.Taking the opportunity to be involved in Bananaz from the beginning, Ceri has been working on the project for seven years. Bananaz is Ceri Levy's first cinematic release.