This is so good: This is America

8th May 2018

Title of film: Childish Gambino, This is America

Director: Hiro Murai

Production Company: Doomsday Entertainment

Doomsday director Hiro Murai has always been the master of turning surrealism into reality and reality into a work of art – such as his music videos for writer / actor Donald Glover’s hip hop alter ego Childish Gambino.

Following their creative partnership on making the videos for the artist’s album, Because The Internet, Gambino was parked for some years while the duo brought their collaborative chemistry to the television series Atlanta, written and starring Glover with Murai as the lead director.

Series 1 is finally to be screened next Sunday on BBC2 in the UK (see here) and promises to be as funny, weird and wonderful as their videos.

Now Childish Gambino is back with this Murai masterpiece on modern America where ‘guns are treated more delicately than human lives’.

Credits

This is America Director: Hiro Murai Producer: Doomsday with Ibra Ake and Fam Rothstein of Wolf + Rothstein Sober dir hiro murai prod jason colon ad kenny taylor dp kevin phillips prod design hannah hurney wardrobe michelle thompson choreography ian eastwood stunt mindy kelley edit luke lynch vfx robert shobert color ricky gausis @ mpc exec prod danielle hinde @ doomsday ent Telegraph Avenue dir Hiro Murai prod Jason Baum dp Larkin Seiple ad Jesse Fleece steadi Ari Robbins gaffer Matt Ardine ac Matt Sanderson wardrobe Elise Velascoe dit Jackie London vfx Gloria FX color Ricky Gausis at MPC exec produced by Danielle Hinde at Doomsday Entertainment Sweatpants dir Hiro Murai prod Jason Colon dp Larkin Seiple ad Jesse Fleece prod design Megan Fenton steadicam Ari Robbins ac Ken Tanaka edit Eric Greenburg vfx Varnish FX color Marc Steinberg EP Danielle Hinde Production Doomsday Ent 3005 Dir Hiro Murai Prod Kim Stuckwish DP Kevin Phillips AC Matt Sanderson Art Max Orgell Edit Hiro Murai VFX Robo Shobo Color Marc Steinberg Exec prod Danielle Hinde - Doomsday Ent Clapping for the Wrong Reasons dir Hiro Murai prod Jason Baum ep Donald Glover & Danielle Hinde dp Larkin Seiple prod design Ethan Feldbaue dit Isaac Hagy set decorator Rhys Raiskin 1st AC Ken Tanaka 2nd AC Jonathan Dec loader Jake Bianco gaffer Matt Ardine best boy electric Koby Poulton additional photography Sing Howe Yam sound mixer Evan Freeman re-recording sound mixer Samuel Ejnes prod supervisor Rose Krane prod assistant Alonzo Beas / Jeff Cobb dir's assistant Justin Kappenstein assistant editor Carrie Schreck vfx Varnish FX color Arnold Ramm Doomsday Ent. 2013

Tags: Hiro Murai, Doomsday, Childish Gambino, This is America