Bananaz

Berlin International Film Festival 2008 & South by South West Festival 2008

Sales: Hanway Films

Director: Ceri Levy

Featuring: Gorillaz - Damon Albarn & Jamie Hewlett and Ike Turner, Dennis Hopper, Neneh Cherry, De La Soul, Sean Ryder, Ibrahim Ferrer

BANANAZ takes you behind the scenes on one of the great creative partnerships of our time. For the first time the virtual walls 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...

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