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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Slanted (2025), directed and written by Amy Wang, gives its protagonist Joan Huang (Shirley Chen) the chance to find out. With a bit of low sci-fi, a family drama set up, and a horror slant that ...

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