Independent writer/director Mina Shum was born in Hong Kong and raised
in Canada. She has written and directed six short films including Picture
Perfect, which received the nomination for Best Drama under 30
minutes at the 1989 Yorkton Film Festival, Shortchanged, and Love
In. Me, Mom and Mona, a documentary about the women in her
family, won a Special Jury Citation for Best Canadian Short at the
Toronto Festival of Festivals in 1993. In 1993 she completed her segment
of the Cinework's Co-op Film, Breaking Up in 3 Minutes, titled
Hunger.
As a director resident at the Canadian Film Centre, Mina developed her first feature length film, Double Happiness, which premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win prizes in Vancouver , Torino, Italy and Berlin. It had its American premiere at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival.
Mina Shum earned a B.A. in Theatre and a diploma in Film Production from the University of British Columbia. She has also played in an alternative rock band called Playdoh Republic, published her concert photography, wrote English dialogue for a Hong Kong action flick, directed theatre and become an A.C.T.R.A. member through her acting. Most recently, Mina taught a Directing Drama for Film Workshop and a Screenwriting Workshop for New Initiatives in Film, a National Film Board Studio D program. She also spent 5 years of her life working part-time at McDonald's restaurants of Canada and maintains she learned the basics of the film business there. She is currently developing her second feature script, Drive, She Said, a romantic comedy road movie about falling in love with one's self.
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