cross country to visit his ailing mother and her estranged family. Her third feature film, Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity was screened as part of the Canadian Perspective Program at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival and at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. The film is about a young girl who uses Taoist magic to help her mother's financial situation and love life. In her three narrative feature films, Double Happiness, Drive, She Said, and Long Life, Happiness, and Prosperity, Shum uses a comedic approach to depict the Chinese Canadian family in multicultural Canada. She says that as a Chinese immigrant, she uses humour to characterize society in general. Shum's films often features ironic, discontented young women that want to leave home for something better. In her films, Shum characterizes home as being a place of conflict, boredom, and disappointment. Her depiction of familial negotiations ensure conflicts for her protagonists. In February 2014, Shum began shooting in Montreal on a National Film Board of Canada feature documentary entitled Ninth Floor, about the Sir George Williams Affair student protest. Filming coincided with the 45th anniversary of the incident. Ninth Floor premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It deals with an incident in 1969 at Sir George Williams University (later merged into Concordia University) where students occupied a ninth-floor computer lab to protest the handling by school officials of a complaint about racial discrimination. At the 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival, Shum was awarded the Women in Film+Television Artistic Merit Award for Ninth Floor. Filmography Picture Perfect (1989) Shortchanged (1990) (Short) Love In (1991) (Short) Hunger (1991) (Short) Me, Mom, and Mona (1993) (Short) Double Happiness (1994) Drive, She Said (1997) Thirsty (1998) (Short) You are What You Eat (2001) (Installation) Bliss (2002) (TV) Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity (2002) Mob Princess (2003) (TV movie) The Shields Stories (2004) (TV) Romeo! (2004) (TV) Da Vinci's Inquest (2004) (TV) Noah's Ark (2006) (TV) Exes and Ohs (2007) (TV) About a Girl (2007) (TV) Hip Hop Mom (2011) (Short) All (2011) (Short) Ninth Floor (2015) (Feature-length documentary) Meditation Park (2017) Murdoch Mysteries 2019 & 2021 (TV) Frankie Drake Mysteries 2019 (TV) The Good Doctor 2022 (TV) Awards Nominated – "Best Short Film": Yorkton Film Festival "Best Canadian Short" – Special Jury Citation: Toronto International Film Festival 1993 "Best Canadian Feature Film" – Special Jury Citation: Toronto International Film Festival 1994 "Audience Award":