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JUNKET

Chaos ensues as a gay actor and his female costar fake being a couple as they try to save the press junket for their new television show.


  • Elizabeth Archer
    Director
  • Nick Pugliese
    Writer
    School Spirits, Dramarama, Thank You for Being Here
  • Sarah Yarkin
    Writer
    School Spirits, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Platonic
  • Nick Pugliese
    Producer
    School Spirits, Dramarama, Thank You for Being Here
  • Sarah Yarkin
    Producer
    School Spirits, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Platonic
  • Elizabeth Archer
    Producer
  • Nick Pugliese
    Key Cast
    "Nik"
    School Spirits, Dramarama, Thank You for Being Here
  • Sarah Yarkin
    Key Cast
    "Sara"
    School Spirits, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Platonic
  • Peyton List
    Key Cast
    "Jane"
    School Spirits, Cobra Kai
  • Spencer Macpherson
    Key Cast
    "Michael"
    School Spirits, Degrassi: Next Class
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Lgbtq, Mockumentary
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 10 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 22, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    7,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Elizabeth Archer

Based in Los Angeles, Elizabeth Archer is a left-of-center director + writer who creates stories rooted in vibrant, stylized worlds and has a funny bone for offbeat, comedic filmmaking. Her cheeky sensibility, visual aesthetic and playful tone breathes life into both her narrative and commercial work. She explores the absurdities of modern life from an emotional palette of both subtle, nuanced performances and hilarious physical comedy.
During her time in Los Angeles, Elizabeth has worked for companies such as Hello Sunshine, 20th Century Fox, Netflix and PRETTYBIRD. She is a member of Free The Work and signed as a freelance treatment designer at The Betterment Society. Most recently, she directed and wrote her first national broadcast commercial campaign for Copper Cow Coffee, Visible|Verizon Wireless and the first five episodes of Hulu’s Dot & Brie: Talk TV. She is currently represented for commercials at SLMBR PRTY and for literary at 42 Management & Production.
When she isn’t writing her bio in third person, she enjoys listening to true crime podcasts and visiting urgent care for her seasonal allergies.

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Director Statement

The characters, Nik and Sara, are really just heightened, insufferable versions of themselves. We want to explore the idea of celebrity in today’s modern, social media-obsessed culture, where a person living in the public eye is expected to share details of their personal lives with the entire world. We asked ourselves…what would it look like if two eccentric actors tried to use this public obsession for their own, selfish benefit at a time when the industry is so aware of and focused on authenticity and representation? We want to explore all of these questions (that everybody seems scared to answer) in a satirical way, through a behind-the-scenes mockumentary lens of a disastrous first day of a television show’s press junket.