Filmography
| Year | Film | Writer | Director | Producer | Notes |
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| 2018 | Shirkers |  | | | Documentary |
| 2001 | Gourmet Baby | | | | Short film |
| 1998 | Stop &Go |  | | | TV series |
| 1996 | Moveable Feast | | | | Documentary |
Sandi Tan | |
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| Born | 1972 (age 50–51) |
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| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Years active | 1992–present |
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| Traditional Chinese | 陳善治 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 陈善治 | ||||||||||
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Sandi Tan (born 1972 in Singapore) is a film critic,writer,and filmmaker. After attending the University of Kent,she wrote as the film critic for The Straits Times from 1995 to 1997 before attending Columbia University's film school and earning a Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting. Her first short film,Moveable Feast,was her entry in the 1996 Singapore International Film Festival.
Tan has worked as the director for short films Moveable Feast (1996) and Gourmet Baby (2001),but is best known for her full-length 2018 documentary, Shirkers . Shirkers made its debut at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival,at which it won the Directing Award:World Cinema Documentary. [1] Her debut novel,The Black Isle,was published by Grand Central Publishing in 2012 and was generally well received by critics and readers. [2]
Tan's novel Lurkers was released on March 30,2021 by Soho Press. [3] She will be directing a film adaptation of Elif Batuman's novel The Idiot . [4]
| Year | Film | Writer | Director | Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Shirkers | | | | Documentary |
| 2001 | Gourmet Baby | | | | Short film |
| 1998 | Stop &Go | | | | TV series |
| 1996 | Moveable Feast | | | | Documentary |
Margaret Leng Tan is a classical music artist known for her work as a professional toy pianist,performing in major cities around the world on her 51 cm-high toy pianos. She is also known to be a classical music performer using unconventional instruments like toy drums,soy sauce dishes,and cat-food cans.
The literature of Singapore comprises a collection of literary works by Singaporeans. It is written chiefly in the country's four official languages:English,Malay,Standard Mandarin and Tamil.
The T'ang String Quartet (唐四重奏) is a Singapore-based classical string quartet that has played to critical acclaim. Formed in 1992,they are Singapore's first full-time professional chamber group. The quartet started with Ang Chek Meng,Ng Yu-Ying and brothers Leslie Tan and Lionel Tan. The Tan brothers left the quartet with Han Oh and Wang Zihao joining the quartet in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
Eric Khoo Kim Hai is a Singaporean director and producer credited for the revival of the Singapore film industry.
Lauren Greenfield is an American artist,documentary photographer,and documentary filmmaker. She has published four photographic monographs,directed four documentary features,produced four traveling exhibitions,and published in magazines throughout the world.
Jennie Livingston is an American director best known for the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning.
Tan Pin Pin is a Singapore-based film director. She is best known for the documentary film Singapore GaGa (2005). It was the first Singaporean documentary to have a theatrical run. In 2014,her documentary To Singapore,With Love (2013) was denied for all ratings by the Media Development Authority,effectively banning it in Singapore.
Kelvin Tong Weng Kian is a Singaporean film director,screenwriter and producer. He was a former film critic for the Straits Times.
Screen Singapore was a film festival in Singapore held from 1 August 2005 to 31 August 2005,on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the independence of Singapore,to celebrate the heritage of Singaporean cinema from pre-independence days to the present.
Anthony Chen is a Singaporean film director,screenwriter and film producer. He is known for directing the feature films Ilo Ilo (2013) and Wet Season (2019).
Rachel Morrison is an American cinematographer and director. For her work on Mudbound (2017),Morrison earned a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography,making her the first woman ever nominated in that category. She has twice worked with director Ryan Coogler,working on the films Fruitvale Station (2013),and Black Panther (2018).
Lulu Wang is a Chinese-born American filmmaker. She is best known for writing and directing the comedy-drama films Posthumous (2014) and The Farewell (2019). For the latter,she received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and the film was named one of the top ten films of 2019 by the American Film Institute. Wang has also written,produced,and directed several short films,documentaries,and music videos.
Pop Aye is a 2017 Singaporean-Thai drama film directed by Kirsten Tan. A debut feature by Tan,the road film tells the story of a man as he tries to take his long-lost elephant back to their rural hometown. The first Singaporean film selected to screen at the Sundance,it competed and won a Special Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. It was selected as the Singaporean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards,but it was not nominated.
The 2018 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 18 to January 28,2018. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 29,2017.
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. 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 to win an award at the festival. It was also nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary.
Kirsten Tan is a New York-based Singaporean film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 2017 feature film debut,Pop Aye,which won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival,and was Singapore's official submission to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Time is an Academy Award-nominated 2020 American documentary film produced and directed by Garrett Bradley. It follows Sibil Fox Richardson,fighting for the release of her husband,Rob,who was serving a 60-year prison sentence for engaging in an armed bank robbery.
Lucas Celler is an American documentary film editor,director,photographer and motion designer. He is best known for his work on Shirkers and Claydream.
Wee Li Lin is a Singaporean director known for directing the feature films Gone Shopping and Forever,as well as several short films,such as Centrepoint KidZ.
Jasmine Ng Kin Kia is a Singaporean director known for co-directing the feature film Eating Air with Kelvin Tong,the documentary film Pink Paddlers and the short film Moveable Feast,which she co-directed alongside Tong and Sandi Tan. She is also a part-time film lecturer at the National University of Singapore.
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