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Linsanity – Exclusive Encore Screening in Vancouver
Date: July 16, 2014 (Wednesday)
Doors open: 6:30 pm Screening: 7:00 pm
Venue: Downtown Vancouver Public Library – Alice MacKay Room

It’s a FREE event. LIMITED SEATING.

Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF), Vancouver Public Library, and community partners (Reel Causes, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society, Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society, Vancouver Foreign Film Society) present an exclusive Encore Screening of LINSANITY (Canadian premiere, VAFF 2013).

What does it take to be a basketball star? Jeremy Lin came from a humble background to make an unbelievable run in the NBA. State high school champion, all-Ivy League at Harvard, undrafted by the NBA and unwanted there: his story started long before he landed on Broadway.

In February 2012, the New York Knicks, mired in a disappointed season and out of desperation, looked to the end of their bench and found Jeremy Lin, an undrafted free agent from Harvard. On the verge of seeing his lifelong NBA dream vanish, Lin – at, or near what was believed to be his last chance as an an NBA professional – underwent a now-legendary run, obliterating stereotypes along the way, and in the process birthed a global phenomenon known as “Linsanity.” Basketball – and the world – was never the same. Director Evan Jackson Leong chronicles Jeremy Lin’s inspirational story long before that fateful month, and at a time when Lin was still struggling to find a place in a league that didn’t want him, while never wavering on his faith and hope for an opportunity.

Director / Writer: Evan Jackson Leong
Producers: Christopher C. Chen, Allen Lu, Brian Yang
Documentary – 2012 | 88min | USA | English

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