Anthony Shim was born in Seoul, South Korea, and then immigrated to Vancouver, Canada, with his family in the early 1990s. He began his career as an actor after his mom enrolled him in a high school drama class and soon after he co-founded a theatre company in which he served as the artistic director while acting, producing, and directing its variety of projects.
In 2019, Anthony made his first feature film, Daughter, a micro-budget feature that was developed from a one-act play he wrote. He followed that up with Riceboy Sleeps, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2022 and won the prestigious Platform Prize.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
