Slanted, directed by Amy Wang, gained the grand jury prize within the narrative competitors part of the 2025 SXSW Movie and TV pageant.
Slanted follows Joan Huang, a senior in highschool who undergoes an experimental racial transformation to grow to be white and win Promenade Queen.
“This unflinching satirical thriller examines racial id in a daring and skin-tingling new means. That includes simmering performances by the forged, this movie is each particular to the fractured id of Asian Individuals and universally relatable in its theme of desperately needing to belong,” wrote the competitors jury, Selection’s Clayton Davis, Self-importance Honest’s Rebecca Ford, and IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio, about Slanted.
Within the narrative part, particular jury awards got to Annapurna Sriram for Fucktoys and Amanda Peet for Fantasy Life for multi-hyphenate and efficiency, respectively.
Shuffle directed by Benjamin Flaherty, which follows three folks in remedy to dig into insurance-fueled cycle of habit remedy fraud, landed the grand jury prize for the documentary function competitors. Particular jury awards got to The Python Hunt directed by Xander Robin and Remaining Native directed by Paige Bethmann.
F*ckups Nameless from showrunner Joe Tierney and director Kat Whalen landed the unbiased TV pilot competitors grand jury award, with a particular jury prize awarded to Denim from showrunner and director Tedra Wilson.
Along with the competitors sections, SXSW featured premieres of One other Easy Favor, Ben Affleck starrer The Accountant 2 and Nicole Kidman film Holland.
The complete checklist of 2025 SXSW winners might be discovered right here.