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 ...

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

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

Exclusive: We speak with Mckenna Grace, Shirley Chen, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and the team behind twisted high school story ...

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 ...

Slanted” delicately balances humor and sadness while redefining American identity through the journey of a girl who ...

Slanted is blunt, but it could be more biting. The film struggles in a similar manner to many contemporary satires that want to send up and sentimentalize. Slanted starts in 2015 with a young Joan ...

Being bullied at school doesn’t help either, 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 lunch.

“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 ...

From 'It Ends,' to 'The Surrender,' this year’s genre films at SXSW have a fascinating relationship with mortality.