Highlights
- Made with support from
- CAAM (Center for Asian American Media)
- Catapult Film Fund
- Southern Documentary Fund
- CNN
- Film Independent
- Kartemquin Films
Shuling’s Role
Director of Photography
Consulting Producer
Location Sound Mixer
Director/Producer
Jason Rhee
Producer
Zoe Sua Cho
Co-Producer
Cindy Martin
Editor
Zoe Sua Cho
Sam Rong
Before Jeremy Lin and Yao Ming, there was Eun Jung Lee. EJ Lee, a Louisiana legend nicknamed the “Korean Magic Johnson of NCAA women’s basketball,” has been overlooked her entire career. But finally, at the age of 60, EJ receives her first opportunity to become a college head coach and lead an underdog team in West Texas.
EJ Lee: All-American is a feature-length documentary that combines verité and archival footage of a female Louisiana legend who’s been described as the greatest player you’ve never heard of. The film will be an intimate character study of this little-known Asian American superstar with a Southern twang by interweaving the historical journey of how she developed into one of the best college basketball players and the present-day narrative that tracks the final chapters of EJ’s decades-long coaching career.
The current-day story of how EJ, at 60 years old, is able to handle her first season as a college head coach in West Texas serves as the foundation of the documentary. Archival game footage, along with sit-down interviews with basketball legends like Teresa Weatherspoon (New Orlean Pelicans), Kim Mulkey (LSU), and Colleen Matsuhara (Love & Basketball, L.A. Sparks) will be intercut throughout the current-day footage to reveal EJ’s incredible past.
Shuling Yong | Documentary DP and Cinematographer 