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Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him.
Simon Chinn is a British film producer, founder of Red Box Films and co-founder of Lightbox. He produced a number of feature documentaries, including Man on Wire and Searching for Sugar Man , both winners of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film .
Searching for Sugar Man is the 2012 soundtrack album from the documentary, Searching for Sugar Man, containing a compilation of songs by Rodriguez from his two studio albums. As a result of the popularity of the documentary, the album climbed high for a soundtrack album in some national album charts.
Singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez had toiled in obscurity until the Oscar-winning 2012 documentary 'Searching for Sugar Man' brought him acclaim.
He was 81.The musician's official website shared the news, writing, "It is with great sadness that we at Sugarman.org announce that Sixto Diaz Rodriguez has passed away earlier today.
Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul's documentary "Searching for Sugar Man” presented Rodriguez to a much larger audience. The film tells of two South Africans’ mission to seek out the fate of ...
[3] [4] They have since been involved in the 2013 Oscar-winning Searching for Sugar Man, [5] [6] 2015's Listen to Me Marlon [7] and 2016's Oscar-nominated Pear Cider and Cigarettes. [8] [9] In 2017, the company produced the Netflix docuseries Five Came Back based on the book by Mark Harris. They also work on 101 Dalmatian Street. [10]
Sixto Rodriguez, an American singer-songwriter whose outsized popularity in South Africa inspired the Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man," passed away on Tuesday at the age of 81 ...