Hà Lệ Diễm was born in 1991 in the Tay ethnic minority group living in the mountains of Northeast Vietnam. She left her hometown to study journalism at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi, from which she graduated in 2013. Children of the Mist is her first feature documentary film project. HÀ Lệ Diễm is a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee.