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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.
Sixto Diaz Rodríguez (July 10, 1942 – August 8, 2023), mononymously known as Rodríguez, was an American musician from Detroit, Michigan.. Though his career was initially met with little fanfare in the United States, he found success in South Africa, Australia (touring the country twice in his earlier career), and New Zealand.
cmd.exe is the counterpart of COMMAND.COM in DOS and Windows 9x systems, and analogous to the Unix shells used on Unix-like systems. The initial version of cmd.exe for Windows NT was developed by Therese Stowell. [6] Windows CE 2.11 was the first embedded Windows release to support a console and a Windows CE version of cmd.exe. [7]
Microsoft Movies & TV (US only), [4] [5] or Microsoft Films & TV (Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand), [6] [7] previously Xbox Video and Zune Video, is a digital video service developed by Microsoft that offers full HD movies and TV shows available for rental or purchase in the Video Store as well as an app where users can watch and manage videos from their personal digital ...
ActiveMovie Control running on Windows 2000. ActiveMovie was the immediate ancestor of Windows Media Player 6.x, and was a streaming media technology now known as DirectShow, developed by Microsoft to replace Video for Windows. ActiveMovie allows users to view media streams, whether distributed via the Internet, an intranet or CD-ROMs.
SMS Sugar Man is a South African narrative film shot entirely on Sony Ericsson W900i camera phones in 2008. [1] The experimental feature film was directed by Aryan Kaganof and used eight cell phones to make the film. [2] [3] SMS Sugar Man is the first feature-length film in the world to be made entirely with mobile camera phones. [2] [1] [4]
Sugar was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics and was released on April 3, 2009 in Los Angeles and New York City. Sugar was released on DVD and Blu-Ray for home video in September 2009. The physical and streaming releases were edited down to a PG-13 rating (from the original R theatrical rating) and run 114 minutes rather than the theatrical 120.
Writer-director Kelly Reichardt developed the film with screenwriter Jonathan Raymond, with whom she had collaborated on her previous feature, Wendy and Lucy (2008). Through historical research, Raymond had become acquainted with the story of fur trapper Stephen Meek, who led a group of travelers on an ill-fated journal along the Oregon Trail in 1845.