The Lark Timeline
The Great Leap
By Lauren Yee
Directed by Jesca Prudencio
Manford Lum, a local star of the sidewalk basketball courts of San Francisco’s Chinatown, strongarms his way onto an American college team traveling to Beijing for a “friendship” game. Set amidst the friction of post cultural revolution China, THE GREAT LEAP explores the cultural collide of identity and politics through the game of basketball.
