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.

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.

Searching for Sugar Man (Motion picture)

[New York] : Sony Pictures Classics ; Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2013]

English

English dialogue; with optional French subtitles and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

043396413665

ML420.R637 S43 2013

782.42162/13

41366 Sony Pictures Classics

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.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2012.
Special features: commentary with Malik Bendjelloul and Rodriguez; making Sugar Man; an evening with Malik Bendjelloul and Rodriguez; theatrical trailer.

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

Steve Segerman, Sixto Rodriguez.

Steve Segerman, Sixto Rodriguez.

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

DVD; region 1; anamorphic widescreen (1.78) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Academy Awards, 2012: Best feature documentary.

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