The South by Southwest Conference and Festivals tonight announced its 2025 Jury and Special Award winners. Amy Wang’s Slanted, which the jury called an “unflinching satirical thriller” about identity, ...

Playing like a mix of Get Out and The Substance, Slanted is a smart, funny, and surprisingly emotional satire despite its ...

“Slanted” is premiering at this year’s SXSW. Wang has directed episodes of Starz’s “Blindspotting” and Facebook’s “The Birch,” after winning a Cannes Lion award for her short ...

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

If high school is a popularity contest — the mistaken-priorities assumption that drives writer-director Amy Wang’s ...

about Slanted. In the narrative section, special jury awards were given to Annapurna Sriram for Fucktoys and Amanda Peet for Fantasy Life for multihyphenate and performance, respectively.

Amy Wang's SXSW winner stars Shirley Chen ... Wang takes a gentler and sometimes more predictable approach. Slanted is blunt, but it could be more biting. The film struggles in a similar manner ...

Ostensibly, Joan’s desire to be Jo is prompted by her ambition to be named prom queen — a title the teen struggled to win ...

SXSW: Amy Wang's take on body horror transplants the ... as kids are quick to pull at their eyes to mimic Joan’s “slanted” lids or to sniff at the lovingly homemade dishes she brings for ...

IndieWire’s review called Wang’s body horror high school film a combination of “Mean Girls” and “The Substance.” The film is seeking U.S. distribution. The narrative feature jury ...