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 ''
Vancouver International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Mina Shum