Tan Chui Mui is a Malaysian filmmaker based in Malaysia.

In 2007, she received the Tiger Award from the 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam

International Film Festival Rotterdam

The International Film Festival Rotterdam is an annual film festival held in various cinemas in Rotterdam, Netherlands held at the end of January. It is approximately comparable in size to other major European festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Locarno...

 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

Pusan International Film Festival

Busan International Film Festival , held annually in Haeundae-gu, Busan , South Korea, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia...

 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

Da Huang Pictures

Da Huang Pictures is a Malaysian film production company. It was established in 2004 and its members are Tan Chui Mui, James Lee, Liew Seng Tat and Amir Muhammad...

 with Amir Muhammad

Amir Muhammad (director)

Amir Muhammad is a writer and independent filmmaker based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was born on December 5, 1972 in Kuala Lumpur and was educated at the University of East Anglia. He has been writing for Malaysian print media since the age of 14, notably the New Straits Times.In 2000, he wrote...

, James Lee

James Lee (Malaysian film director)

James Lee, is a film director from Malaysia. He was born Lee Thim Heng in 1973 in the city of Ipoh in Perak. He is one of the pioneers of the Malaysian Digital Film movement. His film The Beautiful Washing Machine won the Best Asean Feature Award and FIPRESCI Prize at the Bangkok International...

 and Liew Seng Tat

Liew Seng Tat

Liew Seng Tat is a Malaysian filmmaker based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.- Early life :Liew Seng Tat was born in an area of Kuala Lumpur called Jinjang. He graduated from the Multimedia University in Cyberjaya, majoring in 3D animation.-Film career:Seng Tat has been actively involved in the...

.

Background

Tan was born in Sungai Ular, a small fishing village in Kuantan

Kuantan

Kuantan is the state capital of Pahang, the 3rd largest state in Malaysia. It is situated near the mouth of the Kuantan River and faces the South China Sea. If one measures the distance along the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, it is located roughly halfway between Singapore and Kota Bharu...

, Malaysia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Multimedia (Hons) in Film and Animation in 2002 from Multimedia University

Multimedia University

Multimedia University is Malaysia's first private university. It has two campuses with one in Cyberjaya and another in Melaka. The distance between the two campuses are approximately 150 kilometers, via the North South Expressway.-History:...

, Malaysia. Her father is from Kinmen, Taiwan.

Directing

• Year Without A Summer(film) / 87 minutes / 2010
  

World premiere in Pusan International Film Festival.

• Love Conquers All (film)
  Love Conquers All (film)
  Love Conquers All is an award-winning 2006 movie by Malaysian director Tan Chui Mui. -Synopsis:...
  
  / 90 minutes / 2006

Awards:

VPRO

VPRO

The VPRO was established in the Netherlands in 1926 as a religious broadcasting organization. Falling under the Protestant pillar, it represented the Liberal Protestant current...

 Tiger Award, 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam

New Currents Award, 11th Pusan International Film Festival

Fipresci Award, 11th Pusan International Film Festival

Shorts:

• Company of Mushrooms 蘑菇兄弟们 / 2006 / 30 minutes

Awards:

Best Foreign Short Film, Entre Veus Belford.

• South of South 南国以南 / 2006/ 11 minutes

59th Locarno International Film Festival

Locarno International Film Festival

The Film Festival Locarno is an international film festival held annually in the city of Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. After Cannes and Venice and together with Karlovy Vary, Locarno is the Film Festival with the longest history...

35th Rotterdam International Film Festival 鹿特丹电影节

• A tree in Tanjung Malim 丹绒马林有棵树 / 2005/ 26 minutes

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

Producing

• Apa khabar orang kampung?
  Apa Khabar Orang Kampung
  Apa Khabar Orang Kampung is a 2007 Malaysian documentary by Amir Muhammad. It was produced by Da Huang Pictures. Like its predecessor The Last Communist, it was banned in its home country but screened in several international film festivals...
  
  

Amir Muhammad

Amir Muhammad (director)

Amir Muhammad is a writer and independent filmmaker based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was born on December 5, 1972 in Kuala Lumpur and was educated at the University of East Anglia. He has been writing for Malaysian print media since the age of 14, notably the New Straits Times.In 2000, he wrote...

 / 2006

• Before we fall in love again

James Lee

James Lee (Malaysian film director)

James Lee, is a film director from Malaysia. He was born Lee Thim Heng in 1973 in the city of Ipoh in Perak. He is one of the pioneers of the Malaysian Digital Film movement. His film The Beautiful Washing Machine won the Best Asean Feature Award and FIPRESCI Prize at the Bangkok International...

/ 2006 / 100 minutes

• Chemman Chaalai (The Gravel Road) 红泥路

Deepak Kumaran Menon / 2005 / 90 minutes