The documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" continues to get national recognition.
The Wrap, a Hollywood news website, reports that the Swedish producer Malk Bendjelloul has been nominated for an award by the Producers Guild of America.
The film is "the best-known of the five films whose producers have been nominated for documentary motion pictures by Producers Guild of America, which announced its nominations on Friday," says an article by Steven Pond. Producer Malik Bendjelloul is Swedish.
Malik Bendjelloul's film about the rediscovery of '70s recording artist Rodriguez joined a slate of nominees that also includes Jon Shenk's doc about the outsted president of the Maldives, "The Island President"; Marius A. Merkevicius' story of the 1992 Lithuanian Olympic basketball team, "The Other Dream Team"; Dror Moreh's chronicle of some members of the Israeli intelligence services, "The Gatekeepers"; and Aaron Yeger's film about the Roma (gypsies) in Europe, "A People Uncounted."
The PGA bypassed number of the year's high-profile docs, including "Bully," "The Queen of Versailles," "The Imposter," "Samsara," "West of Memphis" and "The Invisible War."
Of the guild's choices, only "Sugar Man" was also nominated in the top category at the IDA Awards and the Cinema Eye Honors, the two major awards in the documentary field.
