The Truck | Oscar-Qualified Short Film: The Search for the Morning After Pill in Americana

Liz Rao - THE TRUCK Short Film My guest today is filmmaker Liz Rao and her debut Oscar-qualified live action short film “The Truck”. Academy Award®-winner Spike Lee and acclaimed actor-director Joan Chen have boarded the coming-of-age thriller as executive producers, lending high-profile support as the film entered post-production. Set against the simmering anxieties of post-Roe America, “The Truck” follows a Chinese American teenager and her boyfriend as they attempt to buy the morning-after pill in a small town where reproductive rights are contested and quietly policed. Liz Rao is a Brooklyn-based Screenwriter and Director. “The Truck” World-Premiered at Telluride, screened at MoMA, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Oscar-qualifying Florida Film Festival, won Best Screenplay at Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, screening in more than 50 festivals and counting, worldwide.  With Lee and Chen now championing her debut, “The Truck” is positioned as one of the year’s most anticipated indie breakouts, poised to ignite conversations around autonomy, identity, and the quiet horrors of coming of age in a country where choice is no longer a given. Ladies and gentlemen, Liz Rao’s THE TRUCK is tense, emotional and can be somewhat polarizing in a landscape that is constantly changing in America. Regardless, of what side of the aisle you are on in America, we are still dishing out judgement, even racism across our country.  The simple act of looking for the morning after pill can make some people feel they are wearing a scarlet letter and this topic isn’t going away anytime soon.  #morningafterpill #teenlove #americana #shortfilm #film #cinema #spikelee #filmmaker #filmmaking #filmdirector #filmproducer #oscars #academyawards