Filmography
Feature films:
Barbarian Invasion
2021 | 106 mins | Chinese w Eng subs
Year Without a Summer (Berkelana)
2010 | 87 mins | Malay w Eng subs
Love Conquers All
2006 | 90 mins | Chinese w Eng subs
Short Films:
Everyday Everyday
2008 | 18 mins | Mandarin
A Tree in Tanjung Malim
2005 | 26 mins | Mandarin
AWARDS
FEATURE FILMS
BARBARIAN INVASION / 2021 / 106 minutes
Jury Grand Prix, Golden Goblet Awards, 24th Shanghai International Film Festival, 2021
Best Actress Festival Filem Malaysia Ke-32
LOVE CONQUERS ALL / 2006 / 90 minutes
New Currents Awards, 11th Busan International Film Festival, South Korea, 2006
Fipresci Prize, 11th Busan International Film Festival, South Korea, 2006
VPRO Tiger Award, 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherland, 2007
Grand Prize City of Lisbon, 4th Indie Lisboa, Portugal, 2007
Golden Digital Award, 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2007
Oikocredit Award, 21st Fribourg International Film Festival
SHORT FILMS
EVERYDAY EVERYDAY / 2008 / 18 minutes
Grand Prize, 21st Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, 2009
International Short Film Competition Award, Artfilm Fest, Slovak, 2009
Best Short Film Award, Asiana International Short Film Festival, South Korea, 2009
COMPANY OF MUSHROOMS / 2006 / 30 minutes
Best Fiction Short Film, 21st Entrevues Belford International Film Festival, France
A TREE IN TANJUNG MALIM / 2005 / 25 minutes
Principal Award, 51st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
Best Foreign Short Film, Entrevues Belford International Film Festival, France
Tan Chui Mui 陳翠梅
陳翠梅5歲釘過一個小板凳，8歲開車撞過一根柱子，9歲做過一本兒童雜誌，12歲讀完一整本科學百科全書，17歲開過一個文學專欄，21歲電腦動畫學位畢業，27歲拍過一部《愛情征服一切》，38歲生了一個小孩，41歲決定習武。
At age of 5, Tan Chui Mui made a small wooden stool. At 8 she drove a pick up truck onto a column. At 9 she printed a children magazine. At 12 she finished reading an Encyclopedia. At 17 she has a column in a student weekly paper. At 21 she got a computer animation degree. At 27 she made her first film Love Conquers All. At 38 she gave birth to a child. At 41 she decided to learn Martial art.
Born 1978 in Kuantan, she is the first Malaysian filmmaker who has won prestigious awards in international film festivals such as Busan International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and Oberhausen Short Film Festival.
In 2005, she set up Da Huang Pictures and started the Malaysian New Wave.
Mui had also jury for International Film Festival Rotterdam, Busan Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, Shanghai International Film Festival, Beijing Independent Film Festival, Hong Kong IFVA Award, Vladivostok International Film Festival etc.
Besides, she was mentor for regional filmmaking workshops such as Asian Film Academy, Asean- ROK FLY, South East Asian FilmLab and Makassar SEA Skrin Academy.
In 2015, she initiated Next New Wave, a brand under NNW Films to design and organize filmmaking-related workshops, which aims to provide young and growing film talents in Malaysia with an unprecedented platform to learn directly from renowned filmmakers in the region.
In 2017, she started SeaShorts, a film festival that focuses on showing Southeast Asian short films.
In 2021, she made her third feature film BARBARIAN INVASION after ten years and won the Jury Grand Prix at the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival.
She still has two pending projects, produced by Jia Zhang Ke, a Ming Dynasty period film IMPERIAL EXAM, and a Contemporary Wuxia film, ALL ABOUT YUYU.