Shirkers (2018)
There are movers, there are shakers, and there are shirkers.
In 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.
- Date of release
- 2018-01-21
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (140)
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Sandi Tan
Casting
- Sandi Tan — Self
- Sophia Siddique Harvey — Self
- Georges Cardona — Self (archive footage)
- Philip Cheah — Self
- Jasmine Ng Kin Kia — Self
- Stephen Tyler — Self
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Sundance World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary
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 to win an award at the festival. It was also nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary.
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