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“Slanted” : Exclusive video Interview with Writer/Director Amy Wang on the SXSW Winning Film

  Check out more of Our YouTube Channel  Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s program called…

‘Slanted’ Uses Body Horror To Mock White Ethnocentrism

If The Substance explored ageism through the transformation of the body, a film featured in the line-up of the 43rd edition of the Torino Film Festival uses the same means to discuss white ethnocentrism. Slanted follows Joan Huang (Shirley Chen), a Chinese-American teen, who moved with her family from China to the star-spangled country when…

SXSW Award Winner ‘Slanted’ Tackles White Privilege in a Larger-than-Life Way

White privilege is a concept that many people don’t want to talk about since they think it inherently implies that there’s something wrong or unimpressive about being born with a certain skin color. But those who stop to contemplate it even just briefly will realize that, for those who are able to move throughout this…