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[title]With the line-up out for the 2025 Sydney Film Festival, analysis paralysis is really doing its thing. There are too many good films to choose from, and so little time to watch them all. We’re offering you the answer with the chance to get a hot little ticket (well, two) in hand and have the guesswork taken out of things.
Time Out is taking over a SFF screening this year, and boy is it a special one. Slanted is Amy Wang’s first feature film – we’ve got a soft spot for the director given she grew up in Sydney.
Wang’s experience of going through school as a Chinese-Australian in Sydney’s Inner West fuels the plot of Slanted, with an American twist. Protagonist Joan Huang (Shirley Chen) dreams of one thing: being prom queen. When she thinks she needs to be white to have a shot at winning, ‘racial transformation surgery’ looks like her key to the crown, and so begins the journey to being ‘Jo Hunt’ (Mckenna Grace).
While Slanted is Wang’s first feature film, she’s no stranger to the screen. Her short film Unnatural scored Gold in the Young Director Awards at Cannes Lions, and she’s been involved in the writing team for the upcoming Crazy Rich Asians 2. She’s also produced and written for television series with Oscar winners like Michelle Yeoh in The Brothers Sun and Zoe Saldaña in From Scratch.
There are five double passes up for grabs that not only give you access to the screening on Monday, June 9 at 5pm at the State Theatre, but also a Q&A with Wang on what goes into making a film that’s both satirical and poignant. Enter below before June 5.