In 1992, aspiring filmmaker Sandi Tan enlisted her friends, Jasmine Ng and Sophie Siddique, to help her do something wildly ambitious: shoot an independent feature film in Singapore over a college break. Tan wrote the screenplay, a mood piece about a 16-year-old assassin (a role Tan would end up playing herself) drifting around, picking off a predetermined number of targets one by one. Their director would be Georges Cardona, the American filmmaker who ran the film class all three attended before college. During the course, he took a liking to Tan and Ng, and took a cross-country road trip of America with Tan that clearly helped inspire the film, entitled Shirkers. Filming the movie was an ordeal, but the foursome managed to complete the film on schedule, with Cardona taking the film to America to get it processed, with plans for Ng to edit the movie over a future break. Instead, Cardona disap...Read the entire review