Body Specialist deejay Gully Bop will join the elite group of entertainers who have had films made about them. The late deejay stars in the profile documentary film of his life which will be screened this Friday at the annual GATFFEST (Greater August Town Film Festival) at The Ruins, The University of the West Indies, Mona. The brainchild of cinematographer Winston Lindo, the film is titled A Journey Through Salvation and it captures Gully Bop during his heyday in the music industry.
Lindo, who said that critics have hailed the film as "entertaining" and have commended him for "making Gully Bop look like a movie star", has refused to take some of the credit. "I would say Gully Bop was born a star," shared the director. Lindo, who met Gully Bop in 2015, told THE STAR that at the time, the media painted a certain image of the deejay and he knew that there had to be more to this artiste than simply "a man from the gully".
He arranged to do an on-camera interview, with the hope of eventually doing a docu-film, an idea that Gully Bop reportedly "loved". "The initial meet-up was to shoot the interview part of the film ..
. but after shooting the interview, I guess he was pleased with how it was conducted and he asked me if I would be interested in being more deeply involved in documenting his journey. He trusted me with bringing a camera into his personal and public life, and he also knew that I would not exploit him," recalled Lindo, whose role also included creative director-desig.
