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Searching for Sugar Man [videorecording] / a Red Box Films & Passion Pictures production in association with Canfield Pictures & the Documentary Company ; a film by Malik Bendjelloul ; produced by Simon Chinn, Malik Bendjelloul ; written, directed, and edited by Malik Bendjelloul.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: 41366 | Sony Pictures ClassicsLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French Publication details: [New York] : Sony Pictures Classics ; Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2013]Edition: Widescreen edDescription: 1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Searching for Sugarman
Uniform titles:
  • Searching for Sugar Man (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML420.R637 S43 2013
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Camilla Skagerström ; original songs by Sixto Rodriguez.
Awards:
  • Academy Awards, 2013: Best feature documentary.
Cast: Steve Segerman, Sixto Rodriguez.Summary: In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long rumored there to be dead, two fans, record store owner Stephen Segerman and journalist Craig Bartholomew-Strydom, decided to seek out the truth of his fate.
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DVD; region 1; anamorphic widescreen (1.78) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.

English dialogue; with optional French and English subtitles. Subtitled in English for the deaf and hard of hearing [SDH].

Steve Segerman, Sixto Rodriguez.

Director of photography, Camilla Skagerström ; original songs by Sixto Rodriguez.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2012.

Rating: PG-13; for brief strong language and some drug references.

In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long rumored there to be dead, two fans, record store owner Stephen Segerman and journalist Craig Bartholomew-Strydom, decided to seek out the truth of his fate.

Academy Awards, 2013: Best feature documentary.

Special features: commentary with Malik Bendjelloul and Rodriguez; making Sugar Man; an evening with Malik Bendjelloul and Rodriguez; theatrical trailer.

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