Simu Feng is from northeastern China. He graduated in 2012 from the Beijing Film Academy with an MA in cinematography. Prior to that, he majored in Geophysics at The China University of Geosciences. Before coming to the U.S. Feng worked as DP shooting short films, TV commercials, music videos, webisodes and feature films in Beijing.
His thesis film at the Beijing Film Academy, The Home Gleaner, won the Best Short Film Award at the 2012 Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. Feng recently graduated as a cinematography fellow from American Film Institute.