Elenie is a writer/director born in Trinidad and Tobago to ethnically Chinese parents, where she lived for her entire childhood and adolescence. She is interested in stretching the border of what defines narrative cinema. Her films bring the everyday into sublimity and the unfamiliar to the everyday. Her first two films, Goldfish and Monk by the Sea were screened at her hometown's Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. She is currently based in Los Angeles.