Shirkers

Shirkers
Directed bySandi Tan
Written bySandi Tan
Produced bySandi Tan
Jessica Levin
Maya Rudolph
CinematographyIris Ng
Edited byLucas Celler
Sandi Tan
Kimberley Hassett
Music byIshai Adar
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
Running time
96 minutes
CountriesSingapore
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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  2. ^ Lui, John (1 March 2018). "Sandi Tan's award-winning documentary Shirkers to stream on Netflix". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  3. ^ Linden, Sheri (23 January 2018). "'Shirkers': Film Review (Sundance 2018)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  4. ^ Halligan, Fionnuala (22 January 2018). "'Shirkers': Sundance Review". Screen International. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  5. ^ Sharf, Zack (2018-10-18). "2018 Gotham Awards Nominations: 'The Favourite' and 'First Reformed' Lead the Pack". IndieWire. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
  6. ^ 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.