Daughter Ellie Lee tells the story of her Chinese immigrant father and the empire he built from nothing in her story “A Kind of Wisdom”. It’s a story about a “crazy” immigrant dad and showcases some of the hilarious culture clashes between life in America and life from overseas. Life in Boston Chinatown can be full of humor. As a storyteller, her performances for The Moth have earned her inclusion on the “Audience Favorites” and “Best of the Moth” CD box sets, as well as Mainstage performances at the MoMA in New York & at venues across the country. These stories help to shape her upcoming animated series “Chinafornia”. Look for it soon.

Ellie Lee is an award-winning director, writer & producer of animated, fiction & documentary films, which have screened at the Berlin Film Festival & over a hundred festivals worldwide. She was one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. She is a five-time National Emmy Award nominee & won the 2009 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism.

A Kind of Wisdom by Ellie Lee