He Shuming

Directing

He Shuming

Known for

Directing

Credits

16 titles

He Shuming is a screenwriter-director from Singapore. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors) in Film from The Puttnam School of Film, LASALLE College of The Arts. Shuming moved to Los Angeles in 2012, where he received his MFA in Directing at the American Film Institute Conservatory. Shuming was conferred the Young Artist Award in 2019 by the National Arts Council, Singapore’s highest artistic accolade. He is currently working on his debut feature film, Ajoomma, scheduled to begin principal photography in 2020.

Known for

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A widow obsessed with Korean soap operas travels abroad for the first time in her life and finds more than she bargained for in Seoul.

Ajoomma

2022

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Life Stream

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Uncovers the remarkable story of how this small nation has made an indelible mark on Asian cinema in the past five years. Through exclusive interviews and captivating scenes across seven countries, we learn the rich diversity of Singaporean stories, and cast a forward-looking gaze towards an exciting cinematic future. A documentary commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Singapore Film Commission.

Singapore Films: To The World & Back

2024

Singapore Cinema: Between Takes poster
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From Crazy Rich Asians (2018) to 12 Storeys (1997) to Sumpah Pontianak (The Curse of Pontianak) (1957), Singapore’s film industry is a diverse one and its evolution is nothing short of colourful. Recollecting Singapore’s famed studios in the 1950s to uncovering new waves of filmmakers in 90s and into today’s digital revolution, Singapore Cinema: Between Takes provides an insight into the rich history, and culture of Singapore films and its industry through candid reflections of filmmakers and content creators.

Singapore Cinema: Between Takes

2018

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Wei and his family had to choose between attending National Day Parade or undergoing traditional Chinese custom – waiting for the father’s soul to return home for the last time before its final journey into the afterlife.

National Day

2009

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MINDS Perform is a performing arts group consisting of members with learning disabilities. As they rehearse for a new song, they are transported into a kaleidoscopic world of music and dance. Commissioned for the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore.

Rehearsal

2018

Film credits

Behind the camera

Ajoomma poster
6.9

A widow obsessed with Korean soap operas travels abroad for the first time in her life and finds more than she bargained for in Seoul.

Ajoomma

2022

Ajoomma poster
6.9

A widow obsessed with Korean soap operas travels abroad for the first time in her life and finds more than she bargained for in Seoul.

Ajoomma

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Life Stream

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No artwork available
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No synopsis available yet.

Life Stream

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National Day poster
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Wei and his family had to choose between attending National Day Parade or undergoing traditional Chinese custom – waiting for the father’s soul to return home for the last time before its final journey into the afterlife.

National Day

2009

National Day poster
NR

Wei and his family had to choose between attending National Day Parade or undergoing traditional Chinese custom – waiting for the father’s soul to return home for the last time before its final journey into the afterlife.

National Day

2009

No artwork available
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MINDS Perform is a performing arts group consisting of members with learning disabilities. As they rehearse for a new song, they are transported into a kaleidoscopic world of music and dance. Commissioned for the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore.

Rehearsal

2018

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In an old cinema, The Lion City (1960), the first Chinese film by Cathay-Keris, plays to a dwindling audience. As the black-and-white love story echoes through the cinema’s empty halls, two strangers seek a connection. Shot in the historic Golden Theatre located in Golden Mile tower, a modernist architectural icon, now home to The Projector, this homage to Tsai Ming Liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn acts as an ode to the ghosts and sanctity of the cinematic space.

Matinee at Three

2024

Letters from the Motherland poster
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Featuring actual correspondence between the filmmaker's father and the caretaker of his ancestral home on Hainan Island over the past 30 years, we take a glimpse into the life of a 65-year-old Hainan-born Singaporean retiree living in the bustling cityscape of Singapore, and the caretaker living in the tropical village of Qionghai, Hainan.

Letters from the Motherland

2017

Letters from the Motherland poster
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Featuring actual correspondence between the filmmaker's father and the caretaker of his ancestral home on Hainan Island over the past 30 years, we take a glimpse into the life of a 65-year-old Hainan-born Singaporean retiree living in the bustling cityscape of Singapore, and the caretaker living in the tropical village of Qionghai, Hainan.

Letters from the Motherland

2017

HIGH poster
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Choose your story in HIGH, the new interactive short film by Royston Tan.

HIGH

2020

667 poster
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Featuring five short stories of the reflections, interpretations and perspectives as our Singaporean filmmakers go on a journey in search of their cultural roots and how they make Singapore home, the omnibus seamlessly weaves the past and present as generations seek to understand, appreciate, preserve and pass on our heritage.

667

2018

And the Wind Falls poster
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The theft of a large sum of money belonging to a guest found dead threatens a motel housekeeper's emerging sense of dignity and any chance she has of reuniting with her daughter.

And the Wind Falls

2014

And the Wind Falls poster
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The theft of a large sum of money belonging to a guest found dead threatens a motel housekeeper's emerging sense of dignity and any chance she has of reuniting with her daughter.

And the Wind Falls

2014