'Searching for Sugar Man's' Oscar-Winning Director Malik Bendjelloul Dead at 36 — hollywoodreporter.com

Malik Bendjelloul, the producer, writer, director and editor behind the Oscar-winning music documentary Searching for Sugar Man, has died, police said. He was 36. Police spokeswoman Pia Glenvik told the Associated Press that the Swedish filmmaker died in Stockholm late Tuesday but wouldn't specify the cause of death. No foul play was suspected. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2014 A big hit at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival that was quickly snapped up for mid-six figures by Sony Pictures Classics, Searching for Sugar Man detailed the efforts in the late 1990s of two fans of American singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez in Cape Town, South Africa, who were trying to get to the bottom of the musician’s rumored death.

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