Tan Chui Mui
Tan Chui Mui (Chinese: 陈翠梅; pinyin: Chén Cuìméi; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Chhùi-mûi, born 1978) is a Malaysian filmmaker based in Malaysia.
Career
Wang Ge of Time Out Beijing identifies Tan Chui Mui of being at the forefront of a new wave of Malaysian filmmakers who deal with social issues.[1] In 2007, she received the Tiger Award from the 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam with her debut feature film Love Conquers All.[2] The film had previously won the New Currents Awards and Fipresci Award at the 11th Pusan International Film Festival in 2006.[3] In 2010, Year Without a Summer was selected for the Asian Cinema Fund, receiving funding for both the script and post-production.[4] She is also a prolific short filmmaker, who had won prizes in two short film festivals, Oberhausen Short Film Festival[5] and Clermont-Ferrand Short film Festival.[6] In 2008, she had a project of making a short film every month. She had made 7 short films, and she called them All My Failed Attempts.[citation needed] In 2010, she was a judge at the Malaysia Airlines short film competition.[7]
She has been actively involved in the Malaysia independent film scene, working as producer, editor, script writer and occasionally actress. In 2004, she set up Da Huang Pictures with Amir Muhammad, James Lee and Liew Seng Tat.
Background
Tan was born in Sungai Ular, a small fishing village in Kuantan, Malaysia.[8] She graduated with a Bachelor of Multimedia (Hons) in Film and Animation in 2002 from Multimedia University, Malaysia. Her father is from Kinmen, Taiwan.
Filmography
2005 | Chemman Chaalai (The Gravel Road) 红泥路 | Producer | |
2005 | A tree in Tanjung Malim 丹绒马林有棵树 | Director | short |
2006 | Love Conquers All | Director | |
2006 | Company of Mushrooms 蘑菇兄弟们 | Director | short |
2006 | South of South 南国以南 | Director | short |
2006 | Apa khabar orang kampung? | Producer | |
2006 | Before we fall in love again | Producer | |
2010 | Year Without A Summer | Director |
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External links
- EngvarB from February 2015
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- Articles containing simplified Chinese-language text
- Articles with unsourced statements from August 2013
- Malaysian film directors
- Malaysian people of Chinese descent
- Malaysian film producers
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Malaysian people of Hokkien descent
- Asian film producers