Malik Bendjelloul

Malik Bendjelloul

actor, director, writer

Malik Bendjelloul was born on Sep 14, 1977 in Sweden. Malik Bendjelloul's big-screen debut came with Ebba och Didrik - Season 1 directed by Peter Schildt in 1990, strarring Philip. Malik Bendjelloul is known for Searching for Sugar Man directed by Malik Bendjelloul, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman stars as Self - Record Shop Owner and Dennis Coffey as Self - Co-Producer, Cold Fact 1970. Malik Bendjelloul has got 31 awards and 17 nominations so far. The most recent award Malik Bendjelloul achieved is Días de Cine Awards. The upcoming new movie Malik Bendjelloul plays is Searching for Sugar Man which will be released on Jul 26, 2012.

Malik 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.

  • Birthday

    Sep 14, 1977
  • Place of Birth

    Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden

Known For

Awards

31 wins & 17 nominations

Días de Cine Awards
2014
Best Foreign Film
Winner - Días de Cine Award
Polish Film Awards
2014
Best European Film (Najlepszy Film Europejski)
Winner - Eagle
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