Anthony Shim | |
|---|---|
심명보 | |
 Shim in 2023 | |
| Born | |
| Other names | Shim Myeong-bo |
| Occupation(s) | Actor Film Director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 심명보 [1] |
| RR | Sim Myeongbo |
| MR | Sim Myŏngbo |
Anthony Shim is a Canadian actor and filmmaker based in Vancouver, British Columbia. [2]
Born in Seoul, South Korea, he moved with his family to the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam in childhood. [3] He has had acting roles in both film and television, including in the 2013 film Evangeline and recurring supporting roles in the television series The Guard and 21 Thunder .
In 2010 he was one of the founders of the Vancouver-based Little Bastards theatre company, where his colleagues included actor and filmmaker Bryce Hodgson. [4]
His full-length feature debut as a director, Daughter , premiered at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival. [5] His second feature film, Riceboy Sleeps , premiered in the Platform Prize competition at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, [6] and was named the winner of the Platform Prize. [7] It was included in TIFF’s 2022 Canada’s Top Ten, [8] and won the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, which comes with a $100,000 prize, considered the richest annual film prize in Canada. [9]
He won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023 for Riceboy Sleeps. [10] Currently, Shim is the slated writer and director of an upcoming film adaptation of “Offerings” an acclaimed Korean coming-of-age novel. Anonymous Content and Anthology Studios are to produce. [11] [12]
