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A teenage girl and her friends make Singapore's first indie film, but their enigmatic American mentor disappears with all the footage.
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In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan and her friends Sophie and Jasmine shot Singapore's first indie-a road movie called "Shirkers"-with their enigmatic American mentor, Georges Cardona. Sandi wrote the script and played the lead, a killer named S. After shooting wrapped, Georges vanished with all the footage! 20 years later, the 16mm cans are recovered in New Orleans, sending Sandi-now a novelist in Los Angeles-on a new personal odyssey across two continents and many media: 16mm, digital, Hi8, Super8, slides, animation and handwritten letters. A kaleidoscopic punk rock ghost story!
"They say that artistic collaborations have their dangers - something made evident by this peculiar and interesting documentary. And this is also a story about new beginnings and the difficulties of making films in small countries like Singapore, and we can say in Brazil too. ‘Shirkers: The Stolen Movie’ will fascinate you with the life of Sandi Tan. It's no wonder that the film won the best director award at Sundance Festival."