About: Joan Huang idolizes the popular girls and dreams of being prom queen, but fears the only way to win is to look like all the past queens whose portraits line her high school halls. Enter Ethnos: a shady cosmetic surgery clinic that turns people of color white. Joan undergoes the procedure and wakes up a beautiful blonde destined for the crown, but at what cost.
Premiere: March 13th, In Theaters-Limited
Directed by: Amy Wang
Starring: Shirley Chen, McKenna Grace, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Amelie Zilber, Vivian Wu
Director Amy Wang had the following to say in an interview about where she came up with the idea for the film:
The concept came about back in 2021. I remember waking up, and there was a shooting in Atlanta at a spa, and a bunch of Asian American women were murdered. That afternoon it kind of just brought about a bunch of feelings I had growing up in Australia. One of the biggest things I remembered was waking up as a teenager, feeling like, “Fuck, wouldn’t life just be easier if I was white?” So, the concept kind of grew from there, and I thought, “Hey, why don’t we have a teenage girl and have her turn white and see what that life is like and have it become this nightmare?” Then, during the development process, I feel like at the beginning, honestly, prom was a part of the story, but it wasn’t a main thing. Developing it with my producers really kind of helped push that side to the forefront, and I feel like it really made the movie.
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