Yanyu Dong is a Chinese filmmaker, visual artist, and film festival programmer. She explores contemporary ethnographic practices in her work as platforms to examine her own cultural dissonance as an international artist. She received her BA at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. She was formerly the Programming Director for the Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival and is currently a programmer for the Slamdance Film Festival. Yanyu's work has been exhibited at venues internationally. She has received the "Tom Berman Award For Most Promising Filmmaker" at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the "BEST Experimental Short" award at the HiShorts! Film Festival, as well as a “Best Short Award” nomination at the Edinburgh International Film Festival among others.