Shirkers
Sign in to saveShirkers is a 2018 British-American documentary film by Singapore-born filmmaker Sandi Tan about the making of an independent thriller featuring a teenage assassin set in Singapore. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in January and won the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award, making her the second Singapore-born filmmaker after Kirsten Tan (Pop Aye, 2017) to win an award at the festival. It was also nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary.
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7.2In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges – who then vanished with all the footage. Twenty years later, the 16mm film is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges' vanishing footprints.
Released: 2018-01-2197 minDir: Sandi TanDocumentary
Cast
- Sandi Tan as Self
- Sophia Siddique Harvey as Self
- Georges Cardona as Self (archive footage)
- Philip Cheah as Self
- Jasmine Ng Kin Kia as Self
- Stephen Tyler as Self
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Key dates
- Published
- 2018
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Duration
- +95
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- P750
- Netflix
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- Synopsis
- Georges Cardona
- Reception
- Critical reception
- Accolades
- See also
- References
- External links
Shirkers is a 2018 British-American documentary film by Singapore-born filmmaker Sandi Tan about the making of an independent thriller featuring a teenage assassin set in Singapore. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in January and won the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award, making her the second Singapore-born filmmaker after Kirsten Tan (Pop Aye, 2017) to win an award at the festival. It was also nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary.
Shirkers was released on October 26, 2018, on Netflix.