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Making the Oscar-nominated Doc Searching for Sugar Man
Making the Oscar-nominated Documentary Searching for Sugar Man
By Kim Masters • • 30m Listenphoto credit: Rodriguez. courtesy Sony Pictures Classics
The documentary Searching for Sugar Man is a Cinderella Story and so is the tale of making the film. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012 in what the filmmaker considered a less the complete state-- it had rudimentary animation and footage shot on an iphone-- the film has won 19 awards and is nominated for an Oscar and BAFTA.
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Malik Bendjelloul, filmmaker
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Kim Masters and John Horn-- Film Writer for the Los Angeles Times-- banter about some of this week’s top Hollywood News stories.
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Malik Bendjelloul was a Swedish TV producer who’d recently quit his job to travel the world. His plan was to find good stories that he could turn into 7 minute long pieces to sell to his former employer.
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