DETROIT (WXYZ) – The star of the Oscar winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man will be performing his first post-Oscar show here in his hometown. Sixto Rodriguez has scheduled a show at the Masonic Temple Theater for Saturday, May 18…
DETROIT (WXYZ) – The star of the Oscar winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man will be performing his first post-Oscar show here in his hometown. Sixto Rodriguez has scheduled a show at the Masonic Temple Theater for Saturday, May 18…
Searching For Sugar Man has won the Bafta award for Best Documentary. via Searching For Sugar Man wins Bafta for Best Documentary – ITV News.
So history was made. Last night the Directors Guild Awards were held in Los Angeles, announcing the winner of their 65th Annual Awards. The DGA chose from nominees including Bigelow, Hooper, Lee and Spielberg (but not Tarantino or Zeitlin) to…
Los Angeles – Just hours after receiving an Oscar nomination on Thursday, SA-filmed musical documentary Searching for Sugar Man won Best Documentary Feature at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. The film, which is a UK/Sweden co-production, tells the story of…
In Searching for Sugar Man’s online forum, users share their first discovery of the musician, Rodriguez. Most users, from across the world, list variations on 2012 and 2013. But, for people with South African links, encounters with Rodriguez (and his…
DOCUMENTARY THE IMPOSTER – Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis MARLEY – Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing, Charles Steel McCULLIN – David Morris, Jacqui Morris SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN – Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn WEST OF MEMPHIS – Amy Berg The EE British…
In discussions around education, we talk a lot about success. Often we talk in terms of monetary success (usually referred to as ‘financial security’ which makes it sound less greedy). Less often we refer to success in terms of happiness,…
“No prophet is accepted in his own country” Jesus says in Luke 4:24. Perhaps there were too many voices in Detroit back in the day, or a music industry machine that had no patience to develop Rodriguez as an artist.…
If you’re a South African of a certain age, it’s almost certain you grew up listening to the music of Rodriguez. Here in South Africa and across the way in the antipodes – by way largely of South African expats,…
There is something about this film; I can’t stop telling people to see it. It is unbelievable. One of a kind. Thrilling. It sends chills down your spine. Literally. What a story. If the facts were not so well documented,…