Malik Bendjelloul was the Oscar winning director of Searching For Sugarman – an emotive documentary film of two South Africans who go searching for Sixto Rodriguez after he  disappeared into obscurity in spite of his local fame in the country.

“Bendjelloul was born in 1977 to Swedish translator Veronica Schildt Bendjelloul and doctor Hacene Bendjelloul and  §13 as a child during the 1990s. He studied journalism and media production at the Linnaeus University of Kalmar in southern Sweden before joining SVT where he worked as a reporter on the culture program “Kobra.” 

Bendjelloul’s death came as a shock to many in the close-knit Swedish film community.

“This terrible news has put us all in a state of shock,” Swedish Film Institute spokesman Jan Goransson told the AP.

“Malik Bendjelloul was one of our most exciting film makers, which the Oscar award last year was a clear proof of,” Goransson said.[HuffPost]

This is truly a sad loss of such a talented and creative person before we had seen what he really had to offer Hollywood. Find more details on this tragedy here.

[Source]Huffington Post