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Section: Narrative Feature Competition
Director: Amy Wang
Screenauthorr: Amy Wang
Logline: As a greater in high school, Joan Huang idolizes triumphning Prom Queen as the embounwiseent of well-understandnity, beauty and the ultimate create of acunderstandledgeance into American life. In her relentless pursuit for the crown, she undergoes an experimental racial alteration to become White and triumph Prom Queen. However, what she thought was a dream come genuine soon uncovers itself to be an emotional and physical nightmare.
Paneenumerates: Shirley Chen, Amelie Zilber, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Amy Wang, and Fang Du
Sales Agent: Parker Mays, MTP
Premiered: March 8, ZACH Theatre
Key Quote: “This is my first feature. I’ve done a bunch of unwiseinutives in the past and they’re a lot more thriller-y, uncontent…I knovel I wanted this movie to see hand held, to experience gritty but have that satirical [element] and the body horror. That was charitable of difficult to stability, for certain,” Wang telderly Deadline.
The Deadline Studio at SXSW runs March 7-10, where the cast and creatives behind the best and buzziest titles in this year’s lineup sit down with Deadline’s festival team to converse their movies and the paths they took to get to Austin, Texas.
