Dive Into the Singaporean Film Mystery of Shirkers in the Documentary’s First Trailer
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Imagine you’re a teenager, and you spend months of your life working on a project that no one in your home country—in this case, Singapore—has achieved before. That was the case for Sandi Tan, who in the early ‘90s joined with two friends, Jasmine Ng and Sophie Siddique, to write, produce and shoot a feature-length indie film called Shirkers, which would have been Singapore’s first. The only problem? When the film was complete, all of the 16mm footage disappeared, stolen by the film’s American director, Georges Cardona. Tan spent the next two decades of her life wondering exactly what had happened to the work she put into Shirkers, which seemed to have disappeared off the face of the Earth, along with Georges.