Project Detail

Searching For Sugar Man

Name: Searching For Sugar Man
Director: Malik Bendjelloul
Genre: Music, Dance
Released: 2012
Duration: 85 mins

Searching for Sugar Man

Synopsis

A musician is discovered In a Detroit bar in the late 60s by two celebrated producers struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics. They record an album which they believe is going to secure his reputation as the greatest recording artist of his generation. In fact, the album bombs and the singer disappears into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording finds its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, it becomes a phenomenon. Two South African fans then set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation leads them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Sixto Rodriguez. This is a film about hope, inspiration and the power of music.

Details

Year: 2012
Type of project: Features
Running time: 85 mins
Director: Malik Bendjelloul 1st Feature
Producer: Simon Chinn
Co-Producer: Nicole Stott, George Chignell
Executive Producer: John Battsek
Editor: Jinx Godfrey
Screenwriter: Malik Bendjelloul
Director of Photography: Camilla Skagerström
Composer: Sixto Rodriguez

Genre

Music Dance

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Red Box Films

33-34 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1JN
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7323 9933

info@redboxfilms.co.uk

Sales Company

Protagonist Pictures

Waverley House
7-12 Noel Street
London
W1F 8GQ
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7734 9000

info@protagonistpictures.com

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