Malik Bendjelloul

Malik Bendjelloul (4 September 1977 – 13 May 2014) was a Swedish Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and former child actor.The New York Times, July 20, 2012: ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Spotlights the Musician Rodriguez Retrieved 2013-02-26Swedish Film Institute Database: Malik Bendjelloul Retrieved 2013-02-26 His movie Searching for Sugar Man won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Bendjelloul was born in Ystad to a Swedish mother and Algerian father.

Bendjelloul committed suicide in Solna on 13 May 2014, aged 36. At the time of death, he was suffering from depression.

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