Hyena
TITLE
Hyena
DIRECTOR
Altay Ulan Yang
COUNTRY
USA, China
YEAR
2025
DURATION
21′
GENRE
Fiction
Hyena
In an isolated castle, students prepare for a life-changing examination. As anticipation builds to a fever pitch, a storm strikes. Trapped within crumbling walls, their academic sanctuary becomes a prison, and minds begin to break.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Altay Ulan Yang
Altay Ulan Yang is a 27-year-old writer-director from the Chahar Mongolian tribe of Inner Mongolia, China. Raised in a monastery and trained as a lama until the age of 18, he later relocated to Los Angeles, where he continues to develop his filmmaking practice. His debut short film, Monsters Never Know (2020), won Best International Short Film at the Fribourg International Film Festival and was nominated at the Palm Springs International Short Fest. HYENA is his second film, entirely self- financed and based on his personal experiences. Drawing from memory, trauma, and cultural displacement, Altay transforms lived events into cinematic rituals. He is currently developing two feature-length projects as the sole rights holder and creative lead.
- DirectorAltay Ulan Yang
- ScreenplayAltay Ulan Yang
- CinematographyHu Yinghai, Fang jiacheng
- Cast
- Editing
- Producer/s Edyta Yutong Deng
- Production Company
- Distributor/sLights On Di Flavio Armone
- Project TitleHyena
- Project TypeFiction
- Completion Date1 January 2025
- Country of originUSA, China
- Country of filmingUSA, China
- Language
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Altay Ulan Yang
Altay Ulan Yang is a 27-year-old writer-director from the Chahar Mongolian tribe of Inner Mongolia, China. Raised in a monastery and trained as a lama until the age of 18, he later relocated to Los Angeles, where he continues to develop his filmmaking practice. His debut short film, Monsters Never Know (2020), won Best International Short Film at the Fribourg International Film Festival and was nominated at the Palm Springs International Short Fest. HYENA is his second film, entirely self- financed and based on his personal experiences. Drawing from memory, trauma, and cultural displacement, Altay transforms lived events into cinematic rituals. He is currently developing two feature-length projects as the sole rights holder and creative lead.
