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Searching For Sugarman wins Best Doc Oscar

PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:18 pm
by Don
This a pretty cool. With all the band documentaries out there, this tells a totally different story.



"The musical mystery “Searching for Sugar Man” won the Oscar for documentary on Sunday night. Directed by Malik Bendjelloul, the film about an obscure Detroit singer made a remarkable near-sweep of eligible awards since its premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
The film details how for years it was thought that the 1970s singer-songwriter known as Rodriguez had faded into obscurity or died. But through the passionate sleuthing of dedicated fans in South Africa, where he unexpectedly achieved a startling level of fame, he was discovered to be very much alive, living and working in Michigan."

Re: Searching For Sugarman wins Best Doc Oscar

PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 3:12 pm
by collingwood
Don wrote:This a pretty cool. With all the band documentaries out there, this tells a totally different story.



"The musical mystery “Searching for Sugar Man” won the Oscar for documentary on Sunday night. Directed by Malik Bendjelloul, the film about an obscure Detroit singer made a remarkable near-sweep of eligible awards since its premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
The film details how for years it was thought that the 1970s singer-songwriter known as Rodriguez had faded into obscurity or died. But through the passionate sleuthing of dedicated fans in South Africa, where he unexpectedly achieved a startling level of fame, he was discovered to be very much alive, living and working in Michigan."


That's good, I have that Movie at home, I'll have to sit down and give it a going over ;)

PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:30 pm
by jrnyman28
Apparently accuracy is not so important.