Lee Ann Kim is a former TV journalist, community advocate, artist, yoga teacher, and founder of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, one of the largest film festivals of its kind in North America. Lee Ann started the Festival in 2000 and served as Executive Director of the film festival and its presenting nonprofit, Pacific Arts Movement, for 16 years.
For more than 14 years, she also worked in broadcast television, during which she earned an Emmy for investigative reporting at KGTV, the ABC affiliate in San Diego.
Currently, Lee Ann serves as a commissioner for the City of San Diego's Arts and Culture Commission. She is also the co-founder of the viral flashmob group of middle-aged women called Ajumma EXP. She is the proud mother of two young men, and celebrates more than 27 years of marriage with Louis Song.
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Facilitating the conversations are award-winning filmmakers and SDFC co-founders Benito Bautista and Emma Francisco Bautista, and Alicia de Leon Torres, Deputy Director of the Nemeth Foundation and SDFC Board Member. Sound design and edit by SDFC Technical Director, Miko Aguilar. Key art design by SDFC Communications & Social Media Manager, Tiara Liz Deriquito.
Nemeth Narratives is presented by The Nemeth Foundations in partnership with San Diego Filipino Cinema and New Americans Museum
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