Amy Wang’s Feature Debut, "Slanted," Lands on Paramount+

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The movie won the Grand Jury Prize in the Narrative Feature Competition at the SXSW 2025 Film & TV Festival.

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Amy Wang’s feature debut, Slanted, is now available to stream on Paramount+. Written, produced, and directed by Wang, the buzzy coming-of-age satire won the Grand Jury Prize in the Narrative Feature Competition at the SXSW 2025 Film & TV Festival and was released in select theaters in March.

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Slanted focuses on Chinese-American teenager Joan Huang, who desperately dreams of being crowned prom queen. Fearing the only way to win is to look like past prom queens, Huang undergoes an experimental cosmetic procedure that changes patients’ ethnicity, turning them white, but at great cost.

“As an immigrant, I’ve always been aware that I looked different. Slanted examines the cost of chasing acceptance, and what it means to abandon yourself in the process," says Wang. "Is belonging worth losing who you are for a system that was never built to value you? I can’t wait for Slanted to debut on Paramount+ and reach millions of people across America."

The film stars Shirley Chen (Beast Beast, Dìdi) as Joan Huang and McKenna Grace (Regretting You, Sunrise on the Reaping, Scream 7) as Joan’s caucasian alter ego, Jo Hunt. Additional cast members include Vivian Wu (The Joy Luck Club, Away, The Afterparty), Fang Du (The Haves and the Have Nots, Madam Secretary), Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (Never Have I Ever, Freakier Friday) and Amelie Zilber (Emily in Paris, Grown-ish).

Slanted is produced by FOX Entertainment Studios’ Tideline and Mountain Top Pictures with producers including Mark Ankner for Mountain Top, Trevor Wall, Adel "Future" Nur and Wang. Executive producers include FOX Entertainment Studios’ Hannah Pillemer and Fernando Szew. Slanted is distributed worldwide by FOX Entertainment Global.

Photo Credit: Bleecker Street and Tideline Entertainment

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_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Amy-Wangs-SLANTED-Film-Now-Streaming-on-Paramount-20260515)._