{"id":87827,"date":"2023-09-12T09:19:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=87827"},"modified":"2023-09-12T21:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T01:29:26","slug":"bufs-opens-season-with-tribute-to-unlikely-music-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/09\/bufs-opens-season-with-tribute-to-unlikely-music-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"BUFS opens season with tribute to unlikely music legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock University Film Society (BUFS) kicks off the 2023-24 season with a tribute screening of <em>Searching for Sugar Man<\/em>, which won the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 film, directed by Malik Bendjelloul, documents the impact of Detroit musician Sixto Rodriguez in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez died last month at the age of 81.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRumours of his premature death dogged Sixto Rodriguez throughout his career, but he passed away in early August,\u201d says Anthony Kinik, Associate Professor in Brock&#8217;s Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film. \u201cWhen we got the opportunity to show a new edition of this film, we jumped on it \u2014 the screening is a tribute to his memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The screening of <em>Searching for Sugar Man takes place <\/em>Thursday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. at The Film House.<\/p>\n<p>Additional films for the BUFS season will be announced as they are confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for all screenings are available at the Film House in downtown St. Catharines. General admission is $9.50 or $7.50 for <a href=\"https:\/\/firstontariopac.ca\/Online\/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=FilmHouseMembership&amp;BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Film House members<\/a>, plus tax. Free BUFS memberships are also available on screening nights.<\/p>\n<p>BUFS will continue to run monthly screenings through April. For more details, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/cpcf\/brock-university-film-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BUFS website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock University Film Society (BUFS) kicks off the 2023-24 season with a tribute screening of Searching for Sugar Man, which won the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":87828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,9794,38],"tags":[6345,6970,92,153,1434,522],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87827"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87838,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87827\/revisions\/87838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}