16 Facts About Mina Shum

Mina Shum was born on 1966 and is an independent Canadian filmmaker.

Mina Shum is a writer and director of award-winning feature films, numerous shorts and has created site specific installations and theatre.

Mina Shum was director resident at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto.

Mina Shum was a member of an alternative rock band called Playdoh Republic.

Mina Shum was born in Hong Kong in 1966 and came to Vancouver with her family at the age of one.

At the age of 19, Mina Shum decided that she wanted to be a filmmaker after watching a film by Peter Weir titled, Gallipoli.

Mina Shum is close friends with fellow filmmaker, Ann Marie Fleming, whom she met in 1989 while they were both students.

When discussing her association with feminism and multiculturalism Mina Shum says, "Because I'm a living breathing human being in Vancouver, which is a very multicultural city, and I'm a woman, I tend to get tagged as someone who might write about "issues.

Mina Shum describes herself as being an enthusiastic consumer of ideas, movies, art, theatre, music, dance, fiction, and non-fiction.

Mina Shum's first short film, Picture Perfect, is a 1989 release about a man obsessed with pornography and the effects of media on his personal life.

The film is based on Mina Shum's ex-boyfriend being a pornography addict and her experiences finding out about it.

In 1993, Mina Shum released a 20-minute documentary about her family titled, Me, Mom and Mona.

Mina Shum has written and directed several other short films, including: Shortchanged, Love In, Hunger, and Thirsty.

Mina Shum says that as a Chinese immigrant, she uses humour to characterize society in general.

In February 2014, Mina Shum began shooting in Montreal on a National Film Board of Canada feature documentary entitled Ninth Floor, about the Sir George Williams Affair student protest.

At the 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival, Mina Shum was awarded the Women in Film+Television Artistic Merit Award for Ninth Floor.