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Greetings everyone, just spotted this over at news.com.au
Donald Glover’s surprise movie/music video/performance art piece/god knows what will be free to stream this afternoon ahead of his Coachella headliner this weekend.
But there’s a catch — Guava Island is only free to watch on Amazon Prime Video from 5pm AEST today until 11am AEST Sunday.
That’s only an 18-hour window if we did our maths correctly.
Guava Island is the first feature film directed by Hiro Murai, who regularly works with Glover on Atlanta. (We have Murai to thank for such gems as show’s haunting “Teddy Perkins” episode, for example.) The screenplay is credited to Glover’s brother Stephen, another Atlanta collaborator, and production discretely took place last summer in Cuba, according to Vanity Fair.
Donald Glover stars in Guava Island as a singer named Deni, who uses the power of music to uplift the titular island. Rihanna plays his girlfriend, Kofi. Nonso Anozie (Game of Thrones’ Xaro Xhoan Daxos; Cinderella’s captain of the guards) plays a man named Red, who tries to prevent Deni from putting on a music festival, because he wants to keep the island’s residents at work. (Letitia Wright, a.k.a. Shuri of Black Panther renown, rounds out the cast in a small role.)
Amazon Studios is distributing the film, which held its “theatrical” premiere on April 11 at Coachella.
According to the Amazon Prime Video Twitter:
It’s free for everyone to watch this Saturday from 12:01am to 6pm. After that, it will only be available to Prime members.
As always, enjoy!
Sounds interesting!
Thanks for the heads-up