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Shirkers

MOVIE

Opening Date

20 Oct 2018

Rating

PG13 Some Coarse Languages

Runtime

96 mins

Language

English with English & Chinese subtitles

Genre

Documentary

Director

Sandi Tan

Cast

Synopsis

Tickets sales are available at all GV Cinemas except Gold Class® and GV@Capitol.
Singapore Film Society will celebrate its 60th Anniversary with a fundraiser and the Premiere of SHIRKERS. On top of an exhibition open to the public, there will be live performances by weish and Ben Harrison during the event.

Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2018

In 1992, teenage VHS-bootlegger Sandi Tan and her fellow film-geek pals Jasmine Ng and Sophie Siddique shot Singapore’s first road movie with their enigmatic American mentor, Georges. The film was called “Shirkers.” Sandi wrote the script and played the lead, S, a 16-year-old assassin collecting and then eliminating her own tribe. After shooting wrapped, Georges absconded with all of the 16mm footage…

The 16mm Kodak cans are recovered 20 years later, sending Sandi, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal, singular odyssey across two continents in search of Georges’ vanishing footprints—and her own.

Sandi Tan is one of Variety’s 10 Documentary Filmmakers to Watch 2018, and one of Indiewire’s 10 Rising Female Filmmakers of 2018.

SFS 60th x SHIRKERS Premiere
Saturday, 20 October 2018
4 pm – Exhibition opens to public
6.30 pm – Doors open
6.45 pm – Welcome Address
7 pm - LIVE performance by WEISH
7.10 pm - Introduction by Director Sandi Tan
7.15 pm - SHIRKERS
8.50 pm - LIVE performance by Ben Harrison & accompaniment
9 pm - Interaction with Shirkers Crew & Photo-taking session
9.30 pm - Thank You

Singapore Film Society Film Addicts get 20% off all ticket prices. Simply flash your Film Addict Card at any GV box office to enjoy the discount.

GV Movie Club members are entitled to 5% discount of all ticket prices

Singapore Film Society’s contact details:
Email: marketing@singaporefilmsociety.com
Website: https://www.singaporefilmsociety.com/shirkers/

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