Born and raised in Hong Kong, Alan Lo Wai-lun graduated with a degree in digital film and television from the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education. In 2014, he was a student at the Film Academy of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival under dean Hou Hsiao-hsien. His short films lay bare his penchant for genre. Zombie Guillotines (2012) follows a group of misfits - including Celina Jade as a deadly nun - who survive the zombie apocalypse by employing do-it-yourself weapons made out of odds and ends from the hair salon they are trapped within. In Empty Space (2014), a man fantasizes about winning a one-way ticket to outer space to escape a contaminated planet and his breakup with his girlfriend. For his debut feature Zombiology: Enjoy Yourself Tonight, Lo partnered with Clement Cheng (Gallants, Audience Award co-winner at NYAFF 2010) to adapt Hong Kong zombie novel series Z for Zombie.

Carrie Ng dropped out of high school to join dominant Hong Kong television studio TVB, where her sultry looks got her typecast in supporting roles as mistresses and prostitutes. Quitting in 1987, her movie breakthrough came swiftly with Ringo Lam's City on Fire, starring opposite Chow Yun-fat. In 1993, she helped legitimize Category III movies (Hong Kong’s 18+ rating for films that are invariably salacious and envelope-pushing) by winning the coveted Best Actress award at Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Awards for her performance as a cocaine-crazed murder accomplice in Remains of a Woman. While she is best known outside Hong Kong for her performances in cult classics Sex and Zen and Naked Killer, she has worked with many of Chinese-language cinema’s leading directors, including Edward Yang, Tsui Hark, Stephen Chow and Pang Ho-cheung. She recently moved behind the camera as the co-director and producer of thriller Angel Whispers (2015).