By Shawn Lim

Netflix has acquired the worldwide rights to Singaporean filmmaker Sandi Tan’s creative odyssey film Shirkers, which had its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

The film would have been released in Singapore in 1992 , had the 16mm footage not been stolen by its American collaborator Georges Cardona, who disappeared.

Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, returns to the country of her youth and to the memories of a man who both enabled and thwarted her dreams. She returns to the film itself, revived in a way she never could have imagined.

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Source: The Drum