{"id":14819,"date":"2013-01-21T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T00:01:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-22T04:01:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T04:01:57","slug":"-Linsanity-documentary-premieres-at-Sundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14819","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Linsanity&#8217; documentary premieres at Sundance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jeremy Lin, 24-year-old Houston Rockets guard, rose to fame when the athlete became a New York Knicks starter last February after all of the team&#8217;s guards suffered from injuries.<\/strong> The guard became known as &#8220;Linsanity&#8221; when he became the first player in NBA history to put up numbers of at least 20 points and seven assists in each of his first four starting games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The &#8220;Linsanity&#8221; documentary made its debut at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival yesterday.<\/strong> Evan Jackson Leong directed the project and first approached Lin about the opportunity to do so while he was playing for Harvard University.<\/p>\n<p>The film focuses Lin&#8217;s California upbringing, his matriculation through Harvard University where he played basketball yet remained unrecruited by the NBA before being accepted into the league and waived by two teams. Lin&#8217;s appearance in the D-League that led him to becoming a starter for the New York Knicks also appeared in the film, which will also highlight his Christian faith.<\/p>\n<p>After the screening of the documentary, Leong told the audience that his passion fueled him to complete the project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a project of passion. We had no money. Nobody cared about our project before February of last year,&#8221; Leong said. &#8220;In a documentary like this you don&#8217;t know how it&#8217;s going to end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z3FXARpvZqM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z3FXARpvZqM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linsanitythemovie.com\">www.linsanitythemovie.com<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Lin, 24-year-old Houston Rockets guard, rose to fame when the athlete became a New York Knicks starter last 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