Tan Chui Mui

Tan Chui Mui
File:Tan Chui Mui - 2016.jpg
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	陳翠梅
Simplified Chinese	陈翠梅
Hanyu Pinyin	Chén Cuìméi
Jyutping	Can4 Ceoi3 Mui4
Hokkien POJ	Tân Chhùi-mûi

Tan Chui Mui (Chinese: 陳翠梅; pinyin: Chén Cuìméi; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Chhùi-mûi, born 1978) is a Malaysian filmmaker, film producer and director.

Background

Tan was born in Sungai Ular, a small fishing village in Kuantan, Malaysia. Her father is from Kinmen, Taiwan. She graduated with a Bachelor of Multimedia (Hons) in Film and Animation in 2002 from Multimedia University, 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. In 2007, she received the Tiger Award from the 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam with her debut feature film Love Conquers All. The film had previously won the New Currents Awards and Fipresci Award at the 11th Pusan International Film Festival in 2006. In 2010, Year Without a Summer was selected for the Asian Cinema Fund, receiving funding for both the script and post-production. She is also a prolific short filmmaker, who had won prizes in two short film festivals, Oberhausen Short Film Festival and Clermont-Ferrand Short film Festival. 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. In 2010, she was a judge at the Malaysia Airlines short film competition.

She has been actively involved in the Malaysia independent film scene, working as a producer, editor, script writer, and occasionally an actress. In 2004, she set up Da Huang Pictures with Amir Muhammad, James Lee and Liew Seng Tat.

Political views

In December 2023, alongside 50 other filmmakers, Tan Chui Mui signed an open letter published in Libération demanding a ceasefire and an end to the killing of civilians amid the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and for a humanitarian corridor into Gaza to be established for humanitarian aid, and the release of hostages.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Chemman Chaalai (The Gravel Road)	Producer
	A Tree in Tanjung Malim	Director	short film
2006	Love Conquers All	Director
	Company of Mushrooms	Director	short film
	South of South	Director	short film
	Apa khabar orang kampung?	Producer
	Before we fall in love again	Producer
2010	Year Without A Summer	Director
2020	Sometime, Sometime	Producer and actress
2021	Barbarian Invasion	Writer, Director

External links

• Tan Chui Mui at IMDb
• Da Huang Pictures Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine