Bananaz is a documentary film about the animated music group Gorillaz

Gorillaz

Gorillaz is an English musical project created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. This project consists of Gorillaz music itself and an extensive fictional universe depicting a "virtual band" of cartoon characters...

. It is directed by Ceri Levy.

Information

From 2000 to 2006 director Ceri Levy filmed the creators behind the scenes, from the first drawing

Drawing

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s, animations, music and the musicians, through to the faces behind the voices of the characters.

2008 screenings

Bananaz premiered to the news media on February 7 at the Berlin Film Festival and to the rest of the world on 9 February. The documentary was shown in the festival until 15 February
The documentary had its first North American

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 premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas

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 showing at Wednesday March 12 and Saturday March 15 at Texas' Paramount Theater

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.
The Indie Lisboa Film Festival held in Lisboa, Portugal

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 twice screened the film on April 24 and May 2.
The documentary was shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival that takes places in Edinburgh

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, United Kingdom in late June.

External links

• Blogspot (Review from Movie Digs)
• Filmschoolrejects.com (Review from Filmschoolrejects.com)
• Tunaflix.com (Review from tunaflix)
• Reuters.com (Review from Reuters)
• Bananaz at the Internet Movie Database
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