Lesbian Basketball Documentary “No Look Pass” at Outfest

Brittani’s Team Pick:

Jess already gave you a list of films to look out for at this year’s film festivals. I have another. If gaysians, basketball, or awesomeness fall into the ‘things you are interested’ in category, you should check out No Look Pass.

NO LOOK PASS is an identity quest film that follows Emily Tay’s transition into adulthood between her senior year at Harvard (where she ranks 23rd nationally for assists thanks to her signature move, the no look pass) into her first year playing professionally in Europe. Emily’s Buddhist parents risked everything to emigrate from Burma in 1980 to Los Angeles’ Chinatown and expect Emily to return home after graduation and comply with an arranged marriage. But Emily must follow her own American Dream, which means moving to Germany and falling in love with a U.S. servicewoman living under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. After feeling like an outsider her entire life, Emily struggles to become a leader, not just a star and faces the terror of telling her parents who she really is.

This is relevant to the life and times of Brittani as I played against Tay in college. As much as it pains me to give anyone from Harvard credit for anything, she’s a great player. The first showing sold out which I take as a good sign. Anyone attending Outfest should check it out July 17th  in West Hollywood and report back.

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Brittani Nichols is a Los Angeles based comedy person. When she's not tweeting about white people or watching television, she's probably eating pizza. Actually, she's probably doing all three of those things concurrently and when she's not doing THAT, she's sleeping. Brittani also went to Yale and feels weird about mentioning it but wants you to know.

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11 Comments

  1. haha oh i spy some familiar faces getting schooled in the first couple seconds of the trailer.

  4. I saw this at the first screening! Afterwards, we met up with Emily at a bar and saw her again that night in WeHo! The film is spectacular and touching and hilarious and exciting and lovely and sad and happy and EVERYONE should see it. And Emily herself is really sweet and friendly. Plus, most of the people involved with making it are women, so that’s cool as well. Seriously, GO SEE THIS DOC.

  5. Here’s hoping this comes to Netflix. It’s because of movies like this that I won’t cancel my DVD subscription

  7. Wow this movie is eerily close to our actual life, similar factors =>(Asian/Basketball/Military,/G.A.Y.),,,Are we on candid camera? ;)

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