The Heralded Return: The Imposter/Searching for Sugar Man
August 2, 2012 5:00pm
Two interviews for the price of one!
THE IMPOSTER: Director Bart Layton and producer Dmitri Doganis discuss their new documentary, The Imposter. If it weren't true, no one would believe it: A 23-year old Frenchman passes himself off as a returning 17-year old American boy who had disappeared at 13—and even the boy's family bought it, right down to the story of why his eyes were now a different color. [Yes, that's the way the title is spelled by the filmmakers.]
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER, BEST DOCUMENTARY 2012
SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN: Singer-songwriter Rodriguez and director Malik Bendjellou talk about the doc Searching for Sugarman, a combination of detective story, rags-to-riches fairytale, and concert film. Rodriguez was "the greatest ‘70s US rock icon who never was." While he did manual labor for 30 years in the U.S., thanks to a few albums a fan brought to South Africa—and unbeknownst even to Rodriguez himself,—he was a literally a bigger star than Elvis, and his music helped inspire white Afrikaaners to participate in the struggle to end apartheid. Depth Perception plays several of his songs in full.
[Check out next week's episode for a full hour of Rodriguez music!)
THE IMPOSTER: Director Bart Layton and producer Dmitri Doganis discuss their new documentary, The Imposter. If it weren't true, no one would believe it: A 23-year old Frenchman passes himself off as a returning 17-year old American boy who had disappeared at 13—and even the boy's family bought it, right down to the story of why his eyes were now a different color. [Yes, that's the way the title is spelled by the filmmakers.]
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER, BEST DOCUMENTARY 2012
SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN: Singer-songwriter Rodriguez and director Malik Bendjellou talk about the doc Searching for Sugarman, a combination of detective story, rags-to-riches fairytale, and concert film. Rodriguez was "the greatest ‘70s US rock icon who never was." While he did manual labor for 30 years in the U.S., thanks to a few albums a fan brought to South Africa—and unbeknownst even to Rodriguez himself,—he was a literally a bigger star than Elvis, and his music helped inspire white Afrikaaners to participate in the struggle to end apartheid. Depth Perception plays several of his songs in full.
[Check out next week's episode for a full hour of Rodriguez music!)
