Amy Wang’s SXSW award winner has its provocative edges sanded down The post A surgery turns you white in the racial satire ...

Amy WangScreenwriter: Amy WangLogline: As a senior in high school, Joan Huang idolizes winning Prom Queen as the embodiment of popularity, beauty and the ultimate form of acceptance into American life ...

Amy Wang ‘s Slanted, which the jury called an “unflinching satirical thriller” about identity, won the Narrative Feature competition. Special Jury awards went to director/writer/actress Annapurna ...

A Chinese American high school student undergoes a hypothetical race-changing procedure that allows her to experience life as a white girl in Amy Wang’s SXSW-winning comedy. Flash-forward nine ...

Slanted, directed by Amy Wang, won the grand jury prize in the narrative competition section of the 2025 SXSW Film and TV ...

Amy Wang's SXSW winner stars Shirley Chen, McKenna Grace and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan in the story of a young woman who participates in an experimental surgery to become white. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts ...

Can you go off the rails if you were never on one in the first place? In her favorite kind of interview with passionate, fun interviewees excited to talk about their movie, Grae Drake just points her ...

Have you ever wondered how your life would be if you could just change who you are on the outside? Slanted (2025), directed and written by Amy Wang, gives its protagonist Joan Huang (Shirley Chen ...

Shifting the attention from starry premieres at Austin's Paramount Theatre to the independent film and TV projects that make ...

If high school is a popularity contest — the mistaken-priorities assumption that drives writer-director Amy Wang’s SXSW-winning assimilation satire “Slanted” — then Chinese American senior Joan Huang ...