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Podcast: Art Works Podcast
Episode: Filmmaker Jason Rhee creates a documentary about EJ Lee "the Korean Magic Johnson of NCAA women's basketball."
Description: Jason Rhee is an emerging documentary filmmaker who is editing his first film: EJ Lee: All-American . Eun Jung Lee, known as EJ, was a college basketball star in the 1980s, nicknamed "the Korean Magic Johnson of NCAA women's basketball." She went on to work at her alma mater, University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM) as an assistant coach and recruiter for over twenty years. In 2022, at the age of sixty, after years of rejections, she finally was named head coach of a college basketball team in Texas. Jason Rhee had been a comedy writer but was so taken with EJ's journ...