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Home Court: Screening and Talk

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Wednesday, March 19, 2025 | 6pm to 8pm

City College of New York
259 Convent Avenue, Shepard Hall, Room 291, Manhattan

Please join Thirdworld Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for an Indie-Lens Pop-Up screening and discussion of the documentary film Home Court, directed by Erica Tanamachi, ahead of its airdate (March 24, 2025) on PBS. The director will be joined by co-producer of the film, Jenn Lee Smith.

Home Court is the coming-of-age story of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian American basketball prodigy in Southern California whose life intensifies as recruitment heats up. As she overcomes injury as well as racial and class differences between her home and private school worlds, in peer groups, and against rival schools, Ashley strives to become her own person and leave a legacy behind.

Co-Sponsor
Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY

Author Bio

Erica Tanamachi is an MFA Cinema graduate of San Francisco State University. Her recent film, Winn, attained a PBS distribution deal. She was creative producer for Motherload (2019), which won Best International Documentary from Hollywood North Film Awards. Erica also won Best Documentary from The Documentary Foundation for her short, Living Poets.


Jenn Lee Smith is a queer filmmaker and supporter of underrepresented narrative and documentary films such as Mija (2022) and Pray Away (2021). She was a part of Re-Present Media's Re-Take Oakland program and is the founder of Bewilder Films, a production company dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices.