About Truck It
Logline: A broke college graduate in Chicago opens a food truck with his best friends, but ego clashes, cultural differences, and a love triangle pull the attention away from the food.
The Pilot "Graduation Day": Instead of feeling pride on his graduation day, Parker James Li must use his two best friends Ryker and Bianca to help him hide that he went to culinary school and will open his dad’s old food truck as a business! (Every Asian mom’s dream). Likewise, his love life gets complicated as his crush Brendan and ex-girlfriend Isla compete for his attention.
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What is Truck It: Truck It is a single-cam, serialized comedy following PJ Li, who tries to answer the never-ending question, "What are you doing after graduation?" Stuck in a writer's block and without a roof over his head, PJ uses his love for food to make a food truck business with his childhood best friend Ryker, ex-girlfriend Isla, and college crush Brendan. They attempt to mix PJ's signature bao dumplings into other white cuisines to climb the ladder to the most coveted festival of the year, Lollapalooza. However, Ryker's endless lousy marketing ideas, competition between other food trucks, a love triangle, and PJ's struggle with his culture keep the business from thriving.
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The Team Behind Truck It
Showrunner Statement: Truck It has been my passion project for almost five years now. I developed the project during my first semester at DePaul and never expected to make it a reality. I have such big dreams for this show, and it is my love letter to sitcom lovers, people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, and Chicago.
Ultimately, I want to make space for queer, POC, and femme filmmakers, and I am most proud that Truck It's leadership team reflected that mission. Our department heads included four femme producers—two of whom are queer—a Black director, a Latina editor, queer non-binary director of photography and camera operator, a queer mixed Latina gaffer, a queer production designer, and a POC sound mixer.
There are a lot of scary things happening in the world today. As a queer, POC woman, it is it is difficult to have hope for the future. However, I believe media is a powerful tool that can allow people to understand my experience, even if they are not a person of color, a young adult, or queer. Ultimately, Truck It aims to celebrate people of color and the LGBTQIA+ community. I want it to be a safe space where we can embrace who we are and see ourselves represented on TV in a way that hasn't been done before. The world needs this now more than ever.
