Country: USA
Year: 2025
Duration: 102'
In a town in the south of the United States, Joan Huang, a girl of Chinese-American origin, lives with the daily racism of society; people make fun of her clothes and the food she eats. After becoming an adolescent, Joan dreams of becoming the queen of the school prom, leading her to disregard the requests of her family (who would like her to take over her father’s cleaning job) and to betray her own identity. Duped by her rival Olivia, Joan undergoes an experimental surgical procedure to seem white, in hopes of being accepted by her companions. The treatment will let her integrate with the others but she will lose her best friend Brindha and have to come to terms with an irreversible transformation…
Biography
film director
Amy Wang
(Australia) is an award-winning Chinese Australian filmmaker who is based in Los Angeles. She graduated in Communication Science from the University of Technology Sydney and in 2017 graduated in directing from the American Film Institute. She has written on From Scratch and The Brothers Sun for Netflix. Her short film Unnatural (2017) won the Gold Young Director Award at Cannes Lions and premiered at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Slanted is her feature film debut. After having directed a few episodes of the series The Birch (2019), she debuted as a director with Slanted.
FILMOGRAFIA
Blind Luck (cm, 2011), Now or Never (cm, 2012), Worst Date Ever (cm, 2013), Eyes of Dawn (cm, 2016), Mary (cm, 2016), Unnatural (cm, 2017), The Birch (tv, 2019), Slanted (2025).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Amy Wang. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ed Wu. EDITING: Ryan Chan. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Ying-Te Julie Chen. COSTUME DESIGN: Michelle J. Li. MUSIC: Shirley Song. CAST: Shirley Chen, Mckenna Grace, Elaine Hendrix, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Sarah Kopkin, Vivian Wu, Amelie Zilber, Olivia Hammond, Kristen Cui, Liz McGeever, Charlotte Ann Tucker, Megan Hayes, Britton Webb, R. Keith Harris, Callie McClincy. PRODUCTION: Amy Wang, Mark Ankner, Trevor Wall, Adel “Future” Nur for Mountain Top Pictures, Tideline Entertainment.
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