The Idiot. dir. Sandi Tan. Sandi Tan is the director of the popular 2018 documentary Shirkers and wo
The Idiot. dir. Sandi Tan. Sandi Tan is the director of the popular 2018 documentary Shirkers and won the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award for that film. She was born in Singapore and received a Masters of Fine Arts in screenwriting from Columbia University. Tan’s next project will be an adaptation of Elif Batuman’s 2017 autofiction novel The Idiot. Much like Tan’s situation with Shirkers, Batuman first wrote The Idiot at a younger age, and then came back to it, adapted it, and published it much later in life. The story follows a brainy Harvard girl, Selin, and her first time falling in love, in which she writes love emails to her classmate, Ivan. Tan describes the work as “the intelligent, creative young woman’s Twilight.” Photo courtesy of Prestige Online.Follow sinθ magazine for more daily posts about Sino arts and culture. -- source link
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