Searching for Sugar Man

Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 SwedishBritish documentary film of a South African cultural phenomenon directed and written by Malik Bendjelloul which details the efforts of two Cape Town fans in the late 1990s, Stephen Sugar Segerman and Craig BartholomewStrydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him. Rodriguezs music, which had never achieved success in the United States, had become very popular in South Africa although little was known about him in that country.

Initially using Superfilm to record stylised shots for the film, director Malik Bendjelloul ran out of money for more film to record the final few shots. After three years of cutting room work the main financial backers of the film threatened to withdraw funding to finish it. He resorted to filming the remaining stylised shots on his smartphone using an iPhone app called 8mm Vintage Camera.Searching for Sugar Man was the opening film at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012, where it won the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award for best international documentary. It was released in the United Kingdom onJuly 2012, and had a limited release New York and Los Angeles in the United States the following day. ........

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