Mina Shum

Directing

Mina Shum

Born 1966-01-01 · 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.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, nine filmmakers isolating in different parts of the world join to make a film. A 9-chapter anthology, this collection created by women filmmakers from South Africa, Germany, Spain, China, United States, and across Canada. ONE(NINE) is a timeless multiversal experience of what it means to find connection in a time of isolation, orchestrated by one of Canada's most fierce and prolific indie filmmakers, Ingrid Veniger.

ONE NINE

2021

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6.9

Twelve-year-old Mindy Ho inexpertly tries Taoist magic to fix her single mother's financial situation and seemingly hopeless romantic prospects.

Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity

2002

Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity poster
6.9

Twelve-year-old Mindy Ho inexpertly tries Taoist magic to fix her single mother's financial situation and seemingly hopeless romantic prospects.

Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity

2002

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A recent immigrant and trophy wife from Hong Kong rediscovers her love of dance after her wealthy husband's betrayal.

Watcha Want

2026

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A recent immigrant and trophy wife from Hong Kong rediscovers her love of dance after her wealthy husband's betrayal.

Watcha Want

2026

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A recent immigrant and trophy wife from Hong Kong rediscovers her love of dance after her wealthy husband's betrayal.

Watcha Want

2026

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7.5

A woman wants to clear her father's name. He supposedly murdered a shady night club owner. She starts looking for clues about the real perpetrator, but finds more than she bargained for.

Mob Princess

2003

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6.5

Jade Li is a feisty, 20-something Chinese Canadian, trying to achieve that happy medium between giving in to her parent's wishes and fulfilling her own needs and desires - double happiness. Naturally, something's got to give and when love beckons in the shape of Mark, a white university student, the facade of the perfect Chinese daughter begins to slip.

Double Happiness

1994

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6.5

Jade Li is a feisty, 20-something Chinese Canadian, trying to achieve that happy medium between giving in to her parent's wishes and fulfilling her own needs and desires - double happiness. Naturally, something's got to give and when love beckons in the shape of Mark, a white university student, the facade of the perfect Chinese daughter begins to slip.

Double Happiness

1994

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6.6

A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.

Meditation Park

2017

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A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.

Meditation Park

2017

Meditation Park poster
6.6

A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.

Meditation Park

2017

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8.0

Nadine, a late 20's small town bank teller is stuck. Stuck at a job that's comfortable, but not very challenging. Stuck in a relationship of five years that's comfortable, but not very passionate. Stuck on the traditional path towards adulthood. But when Nadine is taken hostage in a dramatic bank heist gone wrong, her ordered life explodes in confusion.

Drive, She Said

1997

Drive, She Said poster
8.0

Nadine, a late 20's small town bank teller is stuck. Stuck at a job that's comfortable, but not very challenging. Stuck in a relationship of five years that's comfortable, but not very passionate. Stuck on the traditional path towards adulthood. But when Nadine is taken hostage in a dramatic bank heist gone wrong, her ordered life explodes in confusion.

Drive, She Said

1997

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The film, which is based on a successful Japanese television series Pure Soul from YTV, follows two forty-somethings who feel perfectly content living their lives free of commitment until they meet one another. When a tragic unforeseen incident turns their lives upside down, can they still be perfect for each other?

This Is Always

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The film, which is based on a successful Japanese television series Pure Soul from YTV, follows two forty-somethings who feel perfectly content living their lives free of commitment until they meet one another. When a tragic unforeseen incident turns their lives upside down, can they still be perfect for each other?

This Is Always

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5.8

In her first feature-length documentary, director Mina Shum (Double Happiness) takes a penetrating look at the Sir George Williams University riot of February 1969, when a protest against institutional racism snowballed into a 14-day student occupation at the Montreal university.

Ninth Floor

2015

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After finding her husband's infidelity, a Vancouver trophy wife reignites her love of dance while he's away. As she explores new romance and self-discovery, his return forces her to face hard choices.

Here We Are

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After finding her husband's infidelity, a Vancouver trophy wife reignites her love of dance while he's away. As she explores new romance and self-discovery, his return forces her to face hard choices.

Here We Are