Home Court

Festival Premiere: VC Film Festival May 5, 2024

Broadcast Premiere on PBS’ Independent Lens: March 24, 2025

Juried Awards:

Austin Asian American Film Festival Best Documentary Feature

Cambodia Town Film Festival Best Documentary Feature

Home Court is a feature documentary that traces the ascent of Ashley Chea, a basketball prodigy whose life intensifies amid recruitment, injury, and triumph throughout her high school years.

Directed & Produced by Erica Tanamachi

Produced by Jenn Lee Smith, Brandon Soun

Executive Produced by Diane Quon and Lisa Ling

Edited by Jean Kawahara

COUNTED

(In Production - 2026 release) COUNTED follows Pamela Winn, a previously incarcerated activist, as she fights to enact a groundbreaking law to end prison birth in Georgia and ultimately the United States. Filmed over four years, COUNTED shares heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring stories of directly impacted women turned activists that expose the hidden horrors over 55,000 pregnant women face annually behind bars.

Work While You Have the Light

(In Production) Conversations with working women over the age of seventy. workwhileyouhavethelight.com

MOTHERLOAD

180 min, color, HD

Credits: Producer

MOTHERLOAD is a crowdsourced documentary about a new mother’s quest to understand the increasing isolation and disconnection of the digital age, its planetary impact, and how cargo bikes could be an antidote.

www.motherloadmovie.com

Feature Documentary