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.
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. She is also a very productive short filmmaker, who had won big prizes in two prestigious short film festivals in the world: 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.
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.
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Tan was born in Sungai Ular, a small fishing village in Kuantan, Malaysia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Multimedia (Hons) in Film and Animation in 2002 from Multimedia University, Malaysia. Her father is from Kinmen, Taiwan.
World premiere in Pusan International Film Festival.
Awards:
VPRO Tiger Award, 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam
New Currents Award, 11th Pusan International Film Festival
Fipresci Award, 11th Pusan International Film Festival
Shorts:
Awards:
Best Foreign Short Film, Entre Veus Belford.
59th Locarno International Film Festival
35th Rotterdam International Film Festival 鹿特丹电影节
Awards:
Best Foreign Short Film, Entre Veus Belford.
Principal Award, 51st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 奥伯豪森国际短片大奖
Amir Muhammad / 2006
James Lee / 2006 / 100 minutes
Deepak Kumaran Menon / 2005 / 90 minutes