Chinese film Finding Mr. Right, a classic romantic comedy produced by UBC Film Production MFA student Michael Parker and his wife Shan Tam, has become the ninth-highest grossing domestic film in China’s history. Shot mostly in Vancouver, the film has topped the box office in China for four successive weeks since its March 21 release. Parker, who took a break from his graduate film studies at UBC last year to work as the film’s line producer, says Finding Mr. Right appeals to China’s booming middle class with its urban feel and its between-the-lines social commentary. The couple runs the independent production company Holiday Pictures and Maple Ridge Films, which specializes in service productions – foreign productions that shoot in B.C. For more information, click here.
