Career
Wang Ge of Time Out Beijing identifies Tan Chui Mui of being at the forefront of a new wave of Malaysian filmmakers who deal with social issues. In 2010, Year Without a Summer was selected for the Asian Cinema Fund, receiving funding for both the script and post-production. 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.
In 2010, she was a judge at the Malaysia Airlines short film competition. 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. Tan was born in Sungai Ular, a small fishing village in Kuantan, Malaysia.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Multimedia (Honours) in Film and Animation in 2002 from Multimedia University, Malaysia.
Her father is from Kinmen, Taiwan.
