Sandi Tan

Bio

Born in Singapore, filmmaker and writer Sandi Tan published a cult zine called The Exploding Cat at age 16, and at age 22 became the film critic at The Straits Times, Singapore’s largest newspaper. She then attended film school at Columbia University, and her short films Moveable Feast and Gourmet Baby have played at over 100 film festivals including the New York Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand and at venues like MoMA. She is the author of The Black Isle (Hachette USA), a novel that re-imagines Singapore’s 20th century as a ghost story. She was a 2016 Sundance Documentary Film Program Fellow and a 2017 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow. Her film Shirkers made its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival where she won a Directing award, and the film was acquired by Netflix Originals. She was named one of Variety’s “10 Documentary Filmmakers to Watch” of 2018 and one of Indiewire’s “20 Rising Female Directors of 2018.”