D’Banj isn’t letting the Mo’ Hits split affect his stride one bit! He stars in Kanye West‘s directorial debut Cruel Summer with the rest of the G.O.O.D Music artistes Kid Cudi, Big Sean, Pusha T & Teyana Taylor
The movie premiered last night 24th May in Cannes, across 7 screens and D’Banj was there with the GOOD Music crew ( no photograph yet of him), also present at the premiere were Jay Z and Kanye’s new girlfriend (?) Kim Kardashian.
Cruel Summer is a 30 minute short, filmed in Doha, Qatar. Accoring to GQ Editor Logan Hill who tweeted from the Cannes premiere:
Cruel Summer is the story of a Lamborghini car thief who falls for a beautiful blind Arabic girl who’s father will let them marry if he can help her see. So he (Kid Cudi) does using strings that lead her around palace to play music.
Kanye West says it’s a work in progress but it’s wildly stylish, huge booming soundtrack, Vanessa beecroft production design. Immersive fun.
Kanye says he had to get script approval in Qatar. He needed 20 camels, 100 extras, and around 20 Lambos.
His female star (Sarah A., an intern at Doha Film Institute, pictured above) is the star of Cruel Summer.
The film features fashion he designed and pieces by local Arabic designers, shot in 4 days, 3 months start to almost-finish.
Amanda Palmer of Doha Film Inst says Cruel Summer will premiere November 19 as part of festival in Doha.
The @kanyewest Cruel Summer music was all-new (Cudi confirms) and was the best part–big complex production, huge beats.
After attending cannes film festival to support kanye west in premiering his short film 'cruel summer' yesterday May 23, D'banj flew back to london to make a surprise visit to plumstead manor All Girls secondary school. The students were so happy to see him as seen in the video below.
Big things poppin for D’Banj…Movie Star Tings…OOOOShey!
