
Directing
Sandi Tan
Born 1972-08-03 · Singapore
Born in Singapore, published a cult zine called The Exploding Cat at 16 and at 22 became the film critic at The Straits Times, Singapore's largest newspaper (1995-1997). Then she threw all that away to run off to film school at Columbia University. Directed the 2018 acclaimed documentary about her real life story 'Shirkers'.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
Narrated by a teenage boy, he brings us through to the various sights, sounds and characters ranging from a coffeeshop, to a Chinese wedding dinner in a traditional Chinese restaurant.
Moveable Feast
1996
NRA Harvard student embarks on an ill-advised romance with an international student from Hungary.
The Idiot
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NRA Harvard student embarks on an ill-advised romance with an international student from Hungary.
The Idiot
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10.0A lonely middle-aged man is neurotically fixated on his young niece. He wants to turn her into his ideal dining companion.
Gourmet Baby
2001
10.0A lonely middle-aged man is neurotically fixated on his young niece. He wants to turn her into his ideal dining companion.
Gourmet Baby
2001
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.
Shirkers
2018
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.
Shirkers
2018
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.
Shirkers
2018
