| Shirkers | |
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| Directed by | Sandi Tan |
| Written by | Sandi Tan |
| Produced by | Sandi Tan Jessica Levin Maya Rudolph |
| Cinematography | Iris Ng |
| Edited by | Lucas Celler Sandi Tan Kimberley Hassett |
| Music by | Ishai Adar |
| Distributed by | Netflix |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Countries | Singapore United States United Kingdom |
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.[1] 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.[2][3][4] It was also nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary.[5]
Shirkers was released on October 26, 2018, on Netflix.[6]
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- ^ Sharf, Zack (2018-10-18). "2018 Gotham Awards Nominations: 'The Favourite' and 'First Reformed' Lead the Pack". IndieWire. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
- ^ Kain, Erik (October 4, 2018). "Here Are All The TV Shows And Movies Coming To Netflix In October (2018) And What To Watch". Forbes. Retrieved November 24, 2022.