{"id":484547,"date":"2019-04-11T01:56:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T07:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=820905"},"modified":"2019-04-11T01:56:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T07:56:26","slug":"donald-glovers-guava-island-film-to-premiere-april-13-on-amazon-prime-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/donald-glovers-guava-island-film-to-premiere-april-13-on-amazon-prime-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Glover\u2019s \u2018Guava Island\u2019 Film to Premiere April 13 on Amazon Prime Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans will finally discover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/donald-glover\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-glover\" data-tag=\"donald-glover\">Donald Glover<\/a>\u2019s mysterious project \u201cGuava Island\u201d on April 13. The film, released under Glover\u2019s music project Childish Gambino, will premiere in over 200 countries and territories worldwide via Amazon Prime Video at 12:01 a.m. PST after debuting in a specially constructed theater at Coachella today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-820907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/pastedImage.png?w=300\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"201\"><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Hiro Murai (Glover\u2019s frequent collaborator on <em>Atlanta<\/em>) and shot in Cuba, the film stars Glover along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rihanna\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rihanna\" data-tag=\"rihanna\">Rihanna<\/a>, <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> actor Nonso Anozie, and actress Letitia Wright, best known for <em>Black Panther.&nbsp;<\/em>The film was written by Stephen Glover, the musician\u2019s brother, and based on a story by Royalty, the collective behind several of Glover\u2019s projects. The official description calls it a \u201ctropical thriller\u201d about a place called Guava Island where \u201ca local musician is determined to throw a festival for everyone to enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.6415094339623\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">You\u2019re all invited to our staycation with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donaldglover?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@donaldglover<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rihanna?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@rihanna<\/a>. The new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChildishGambino?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#ChildishGambino<\/a> film <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GuavaIsland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#GuavaIsland<\/a> will be available on Prime Video starting Saturday 4\/13 at 12:01am PST. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rxXecJEfzp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rxXecJEfzp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amazon Prime Video (@PrimeVideo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrimeVideo\/status\/1116134235612434432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">April 11, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really humbled having the opportunity to present something this timely and timeless,\u201d Glover said in a statement. \u201cBetween Rihanna and the people of Cuba, this is one of my favorite projects I\u2019ve ever worked on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Guava Island<\/em> is the end result of four incredible weeks spent in Cuba with some of the most inspiring creative talents I\u2019ve ever met,\u201d Murai said. \u201cDesigners, performers, musicians, and filmmakers came together from all over the world to create this crazy fever dream of a production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A trailer for <em>Guava Island<\/em> was revealed in November at Glover\u2019s PHAROS Festival in New Zealand, but wasn\u2019t widely released.&nbsp;The film will be available to watch via Amazon Prime Video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/guavaisland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. It will also be available to <a href=\"http:\/\/Twitch.tv\/primevideo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">stream on Twitch<\/a> for free beginning at 5 p.m. PST April 13. Childish Gambino will perform at Coachella on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/donald-glover-guava-island-film-premiere-april-13-amazon-prime-video-820905\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans will finally discover Donald Glover\u2019s mysterious project \u201cGuava Island\u201d on April 13. The film, released under Glover\u2019s music project Childish Gambino, will premiere in over 200 countries and territories worldwide via Amazon Prime Video at 12:01 a.m. PST after debuting in a specially constructed theater at Coachella today. Directed by Hiro Murai (Glover\u2019s frequent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 01:48:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}