ITR Ghostlight Film- Searching for Sugarman
The Isaac Theatre Royal and Aotea Electric Presents Ghostlights Film Series Midwinter Festival- showing 'Searching for Sugarman' on Sunday 1 August.
Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 Swedish–British–Finnish documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, 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 rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him.
The documentary has not only won multiple awards for Best Documentary (Sundance, Academy Awards, BAFTA), but also led to an unexpected revival of Rodriguez’s musical career.
- Running time: 86 minutes
- Rated M
- Directed by Malik Bendjelloul
- Starring Sixto Rodriguez
Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 Swedish–British–Finnish documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, 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 rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him.
The documentary has not only won multiple awards for Best Documentary (Sundance, Academy Awards, BAFTA), but also led to an unexpected revival of Rodriguez’s musical career.
- Running time: 86 minutes
- Rated M
- Directed by Malik Bendjelloul
- Starring Sixto Rodriguez
Isaac Theatre Royal, 145 Gloucester Street, Christchurch Central
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