Overview
- Film Workshop confirmed late Monday that Shi died at Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital on July 13, 2026, after years of declining health from immune complications and recent recurrent infections that led to multiple organ dysfunction.
- Shi co-founded Film Workshop with director Tsui Hark in 1984 and produced landmark titles across decades, including A Better Tomorrow and the 2002 Infernal Affairs, the latter later remade by Martin Scorsese as The Departed.
- She helped internationalize Chinese-language cinema by building overseas distribution pipelines and in 2007 co-founded the international sales agency Distribution Workshop with Jeffrey Chan to place regional films on the world stage.
- Her career earned wide recognition, including France’s Order of Arts and Letters, the Berlinale Camera, festival lifetime awards in Locarno and Udine, and a joint Hong Kong Film Awards Lifetime Achievement Award with Tsui Hark in 2025.
- Shi had been seen publicly using a walking stick in May 2026 and media reports said she was critically ill in the days before her death; Film Workshop said memorial and funeral arrangements will be announced in due course as tributes begin to arrive from the film community.