TUESDAY, Dec. 3rd, SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN in Cruz Bay
Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 7:30 pm
St. John School of the Arts in Cruz Bay
SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN
86 minute documentary directed by Malik Bendjelloul
Searching
for Sugar Man details the efforts of two Cape Town fans in the late 1990s, 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. Rodriguez’s music, which never took off in the United States, had become wildly popular in South Africa, but little was known about him there.
On 10 February 2013, the film won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary at the 66th British Academy Film Awards in London, and two weeks later it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a glowing four-star review, writing “I hope you’re able to see this film…and yes, it exists because we need for it to.”[6] The New York Times critic Manohla Dargis also wrote a positive review, calling the film “… a hugely appealing documentary about fans, faith and an enigmatic Age of Aquarius musician who burned bright and hopeful before disappearing. Critic Dargis subsequently named Searching for Sugar Man one of the 10 best films of 2012.