Born in Hong Kong in 1964, Dante Lam made his directing debut with G4 Option Zero in 1997. In 1999, Lam won the Best Director for Beast Cops at the Hong Kong Film Awards. He was nominated for the Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards with The Stool Pigeon, Viral Factor, and Unbeatable. In 2014, his film That Demon Within was selected for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival Panorama program.