Malik Bendjelloul
☼ Born on 14 December 1977, in Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
† Died on 13 December 2014, in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden, cause suicide by throwing himself in front of an oncoming subway train
BiographyMalik Bendjelloul, born in Sweden, performed in Swedish TV-series "Ebba och Didrik" as a child in the nineties and later in life studied Journalism and media-production at the Linnaeus University of Kalmar. He has produced several musical documentaries for Swedish Television (SVT) where he also worked as a reporter on the show "Kobra" until he resigned to travel the world. During these travels Malik Bendjelloul first came in contact with the story which was to develop into "Searching for Sugarman" somewhere in South America.
In the role of director
Searching for Sugar Man (17/12/2012)
Imagine you are a folk rock singer in the early 1970s, who is discovered in a Detroit bar and signed to record deal. You record a couple records and, even though the music is well-received, the records don’t sell and you are dropped from the label and forgotten about. Now imagine that over twenty years […]