{"id":12553,"date":"2012-03-10T01:03:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T01:03:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-13T19:03:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T19:03:26","slug":"The-Female-Jeremy-Lin-in-No-Look-Pass-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=12553","title":{"rendered":"The Female Jeremy Lin in \u201cNo Look Pass\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo Look Pass\u201d<\/strong> is the coming-of-age American Dream story of Emily “Etay” Tay, a first generation Burmese immigrant from Chinatown, Los Angeles, who breaks all of the rules of tradition. After living a double life at Harvard University, she strives to play professional basketball in Germany while coming out as a lesbian. Emily’s dreams are no slam dunk \u2014 family, race, and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell conspire against her, firing her passions on and off the court.<\/p>\n

The documentary, screening Sunday and Wednesday during the 30th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival<\/strong>, is the true story of an Asian-American Harvard graduate who makes it big in basketball.<\/p>\n

What magical timing is Emily Tay\u2019s story in the midst of Linsanity, the male Harvard educated basketball player?<\/strong>
\nCalled \u201ca poster child for the American dream,\u201d she is the daughter of immigrants from Myanmar (also known as Burma) and a star player on the Harvard women\u2019s basketball team \u2014 who cleans toilets to earn money to support herself. <\/p>\n

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\nI believe that NO LOOK PASS is a film that needed to be made and just so happened to call upon me to make it. I accept this responsibility as an honor and feel tremendously excited to share it with the world.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Filmmaker Melissa Johnson<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

While her parents expect her to marry a man they choose and become a housewife, her dream is to play professional basketball in Europe and be with her lesbian lover.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo Look Pass\u201d \u2014 the title refers to Tay\u2019s signature move on the court<\/strong> \u2014 is among some 100 films and videos screening at this year\u2019s 11-day festival<\/p>\n

Presented by the Center for Asian American Media, a group dedicated to promoting the diversity of Asian-American experiences, festival programs include 10 world premieres and seven U.S. premieres from two dozen countries; films screen in Berkeley and San Jose as well as San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Filmmaker Melissa Johnson first saw Emily in February 2008 at Lavieties Pavilion, the Harvard home gym. She had heard about this girl, “The Asian Sensation,” “A one-woman Cirque du Soleil\u201d, while she was in town filming “Act As If”, a short documentary about her friend and former coach, Kathy Delaney-Smith.<\/p>\n