Date: Sun, Oct 6, 2013
Place: AMC River East and Lucky Strike, 322 E Illinois St
Time: 12:00pm – 6:30pm
UPDATE: We have added a pre-screening reception and a Chicago Bears game watch at the Wine Room in Lucky Strike (located in the same building as the theatre). Both events are free for screening ticket holders. Reception-only tickets are also available for purchase.
UPDATE: The screening is sold out, but please sign up for the waitlist at https://www.wepay.com/events/linsanity
Bears Game Watch
12:00 – 3:00 PM
The Wine Room at Lucky Strike
Free bowling will be available starting at 1:00 PM, first come first serve. Free to all community partner members. Come cheer on the Bears before the movie enjoy drink specials: $5 Belvedere Bloody Mary’s, $15 beer buckets, and $6 Jim Bean drinks.
Linsanity Networking Reception
3:00 – 4:00 PM
The Wine Room at Lucky Strike
Linsanity producer Brian Yang will be joining us and light appetizers will be served. Free for screening ticket holders, $8 reception only. We are also proud to welcome Be The Match’s bone marrow drive. Hear the story of a boy in need, and get registered!
Questions about reception or game watch? Contact Stacy Uchida at 203.233.5474 | jaconnect at jasc-chicago dot org
Linsanity Private Screening and Discussion
4:30 – 6:30 PM
AMC River East
Linsanity is the inspirational story of a humble athlete who succeeds in the NBA against all odds and expectations. A state high school champion, all-Ivy at Harvard, but overlooked and undrafted by the NBA, Jeremy Lin beat the odds to become an unlikely national sensation and one of the biggest stories in sports history. The movie played to an overwhelmingly positive reception at the Sundance Film Festival and SXSW this year
TAP-Chicago, JAConnect, and JACL in collaboration with the Harvard Club, FAN, KACC, Harvardwood, TIPS, AAJA, AIRMW, and NU-A5 are proud to present an opening weekend private screening of Linsanity: The Movie. The screening will be followed by Q&A and discussion with the producer of Linsanity, Brian Yang.
The film documents Jeremy’s life for several years, capturing never-before-seen footage of him at the highest and lowest points in his basketball career.
The movie will be shown in a few cities opening weekend and if it does well, AMC will keep it and expand it. If it doesn’t, it will be pulled. Our screening will contribute towards the national box office and help make it possible for others to experience Linsanity! This event is made possible by financial support from GFCBW-Chicago.
Cost
$10 early bird ticket by Sun, September 29th
$12 general admission ticket online by Sat, October 5th
$14 day-of ticket (if space remains)
$8 reception-only ticket
Buy tickets at https://www.wepay.com/events/linsanity before they sell out
Presenting Organizations
Chicago Taiwanese American Professionals (TAP-Chicago) http://www.tapchicago.org
JAConnect https://www.facebook.com/JAConnectChicago
Japanese American Citizen’s League http://www.jaclchicago.org/
Event Sponsor
Global Federation of Chinese Business Women http://canews.com/GFCBW_ChicagoChapter
Reception Sponsors
Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce http://chicagochinatown.org/
site design group, ltd http://site-design.com/
Sunny Lau
Dr and Mrs Brian Wu
Community Partners
Ascene http://www.ascenechicago.com/
Asian American Journalists Association Chicago http://aajachicago.wordpress.com/
Asian Improv aRts Midwest http://www.airmw.org
Filipino American Network of Chicago http://fan-chicago.org/
Harvard Club of Chicago http://www.harvardclubchicago.org/
Harvardwood http://www.harvardwood.org/
Korean American Coalition http://kac-chicago.org/
Northwestern University Asian and Asian American Alumni http://alumni.northwestern.edu/nu-a5
The Ivy Plus Society http://www.ivyplussociety.org/
Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/events/517649534978434
Questions? Contact:
Ameet Sachdev 312.222.3489 | chicagoaaja at gmail dot com
Dona Le 617.869.7782 | chicago at harvardwood dot org | dona at ivyplussociety dot org
Harvard Club 847.256.1211 | office at harvardclubchicago dot org
Hauwei Lien 773.819.5436 | hauwei at tapchicago dot org
Jeff Chan 510.326.3163 | jeffchan at airmw dot org
Lakhi Siap 224.538.1471 | lakhi at fan-chicago dot org | lakhi at ascenechicago dot com
Marisa Fujinaka 773.728.7171 | mfujinaka at jacl dot org
Scott Bae 847.579.9730 | sbae at kac-chicago.org
Stacy Uchida 203.233.5474 | jaconnect at jasc-chicago dot org