Director
Mina Shum
January 1, 1966 · Hong Kong
Mina Shum (born 1966) is an independent Canadian filmmaker. She is a writer and director of award-winning feature films, numerous shorts and has created site-specific installations and theatre. Her features, Double Happiness, and Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity both premiered in the US at the Sundance Film Festival and Double Happiness won the Wolfgang Staudte Prize for Best First Feature at the Berlin Film Festival and the Audience Award at Torino. She was director resident at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto. She was also a member of an alternative rock band called Playdoh Republic.
Notable work
Often works with
Sandra Oh
3 titles together
Meditation Park, Double Happiness, Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity
Alannah Ong
3 titles together
Meditation Park, Double Happiness, Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity
Hrothgar Mathews
3 titles together
Meditation Park, Da Vinci's Inquest, Drive, She Said
Charles Vandervaart
2 titles together
Murdoch Mysteries, October Faction
Alex Diakun
2 titles together
Da Vinci's Inquest, Drive, She Said
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Donald Fong
2 titles together
Double Happiness, Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity
Full filmography · 14
This Is Always
Director and Writer
Upcoming
Meditation Park
Director and Writer
20176.6
Ninth Floor
Director
2015
Stress Position
as Mina Shum
2013Mob Princess
Director
2003
Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity
Writer and Director
2002
Drive, She Said
as Chen and Director and Writer
1997
Double Happiness
as Janet Eng and Writer and Director
19946.5