"Malik Bendjelloul, Searching for Sugar Man director, dead at 36"

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Malik Bendjelloul, Searching for Sugar Man director, dead at 36

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/malik-bendjelloul-searching-for-sugar-man-director-dead-at-36-1.2641840

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Malik Bendjelloul, the cash-strapped freelance filmmaker who shot to Hollywood stardom overnight with the Oscar-winning music documentary Searching for Sugar Man, has died. He was 36.

Swedish police spokeswoman Pia Glenvik told The Associated Press that Bendjelloul died in Stockholm late Tuesday, but wouldn't specify where his body was found or the cause of death.

She said no crime is suspected in relation to the filmmaker's death.

Searching for Sugar Man, which tells the story of how American singer Sixto Rodriguez became a superstar in South Africa without knowing about it, won the Oscar for best documentary in 2013. It was the first time a Swedish film had won an Oscar since Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander in 1984.



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