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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.
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.
Rodriguez was “more popular than Elvis” in South Africa, Stephen “Sugar” Segerman said in 2013. The Cape Town record store owner's nickname comes from the Rodriguez song “Sugar Man.”
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Rodriguez found more fame with the release of the 2012 documentary film Searching for Sugar Man, a documentary film directed and written 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 rumored death of Rodriguez was true and ...
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]
In 1988, George A. Romero was considered to direct the film adaptation, but it never came to fruition. [1] By 2007, Frank Darabont had secured the rights to the film adaptation of the novel. [2]