Slanted

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. In her relentless pursuit for the crown, she undergoes an experimental racial transformation to become white and win the title. But what she thought was a dream come true soon reveals itself to be an emotional and physical nightmare. Slanted offers a searing and unapologetically satirical view on race and the uncomfortable journey of learning to love yourself and your culture.

Winner of the Narrative Jury Award at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, Amy Wang’s directorial debut is a sardonic teen body-horror tale that’s part The Substance and part Get Out.