Spike Lee and actress-director Joan Chen ( The Last Emperor ) have boarded Liz Rao’s debut live-action short film The Truck , a coming-of-age thriller, as executive producers. It deals with the impact of the June 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of U.S. constitutional protections for abortion.

“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,” reads a synopsis of the short.

Spike Lee and actress-director Joan Chen ( The Last Emperor ) have boarded Liz Rao’s debut live-action short film The Truck , a coming-of-age thriller, as exe

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