Body horror film "Slanted," written and directed by Amy Wang, stars "Dìdi" breakout Shirley Chen as Joan Huang, an insecure Chinese American teenager who opts to undergo an experimental trans-racial ...

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Amy Wang's SXSW winner stars Shirley Chen, McKenna Grace and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan in the story of a young woman who ...

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Shirley Chen, McKenna Grace, Fang Du, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Amy Wang and Amelie Zilber came by the L.A. Times studio at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival to talk about their film, “Slanted.” ...

Amy Wang is having a moment. Her debut feature film, Slanted, just premiered at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film & TV ...

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

Amy Wang's take on body horror transplants the genre into the hellscape of high school, with grim results that feel more sad ...

Amy Wang's directorial debut, Slanted (2025) uses genre storytelling to capture a lived experience that resonates deeply. The ...