Mina Shum

Biography

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.

Known For

Acting

1997

Drive, She Said

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Chen

2013

Stress Position

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Mina Shum

Production

2017

Meditation Park

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2002

Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity

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1991

The Grocer's Wife

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Crew

Directing

This Is Always

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1997

Drive, She Said

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1994

Double Happiness

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2021

ONE NINE

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2015

Ninth Floor

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2003

Mob Princess

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2002

Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity

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2017

Meditation Park

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1991

The Grocer's Wife

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Here We Are

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Bliss

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Da Vinci's Inquest

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Romeo!

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Noah's Arc

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Murdoch Mysteries

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October Faction

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The Good Doctor

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