Dong Yue graduated from the Beijing Film Academy and then earned his master’s degree in photography. He worked as a cinematographer on several films, including Wang Zhi's The Journey Away (2009), but primarily honed his craft in the field of advertising. For his directorial debut The Looming Storm, he chose to write a thriller set in an industrial town in 1997 to focus on the "psychological status of ordinary people" when Chinese society was going through extraordinary change. In March 2018, Dong won Best New Director at the Asian Film Awards for his debut.
New York Asian Film Festival
