Double Happiness

19951 h 36 minFilm: Fiction, Feature-length fiction

Direction: Mina Shum

Production: Stephen HegyesRose Lam Waddell

Script: Mina Shum

Co-produced by First Generations Films Inc. and the National Film Board of Canada with the financial assistance of Telefilm Canada and British Columbia Film.

Irreverent, cheeky and daring, Jade Li is a twenty-two-year-old aspiring actress looking for love and her place in the world. Like so many members of Generation X, she's culture bound. What's worse is she still lives at home with her Chinese family. Jade seeks Double Happiness a way to keep loving her family deeply, while exploring the possibilities and the pain of a young woman growing up in the nineties. As Jade struggles to maintain the balance of her two worlds, she must answer the question she's been trying to avoid: you've got one life to live, what's it gonna be?

Credits

director
Mina Shum
script
Mina Shum
producer
Stephen Hegyes
Rose Lam Waddell
cinematography
Peter Wunstorf
sound
Frank Faugno
editing
Alison Grace
music
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
cast
Sandra Oh
Stephen Chang
Allanah Ong
Frances You
Callum Keith Rennie