'Searching for Sugar Man' Director Malik Bendjelloul Dead at 36

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'Searching for Sugar Man' Director Malik Bendjelloul Dead at 36
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Malik Bendjelloul, whose moving re-discovery of musician Rodriguez Searching for Sugar Man*won the Oscar for best documentary in 2013, has died. He was 36.

Bendjelloul died late Tuesday in Stockholm, the Associated Press (http://www.newser.com/article/13fbc999a7b44f628c2be67b6a40daab/oscar-winning-searching-for-sugar-man-director-malik-bendjelloul-dies-at-36.html) reported, citing a Swedish police spokeswoman who did **t give a cause. Foul play was **t suspected, however.

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Searching for Sugar Man followed two South African men who set out to discover what happened to the mysterious American ‘70s folk-rocker Sixto Rodriguez. He was hugely popular through the pre-internet decades in South Africa, where stories of his onstage suicide became apocryphal; meanwhile, the real Rodriguez had been toiling in obscurity for years as a Detroit construction worker. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/13/searching-for-sugar-man-director-malik-bendjelloul-dead/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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