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9:30pm • Monday, Jun 29, 2026
Slant (Filmmakers in Attendance for Q&A)
Clarence has spent his whole life face-down in the dirt — the only Chinese kid in a redneck town where being different is a crime punishable daily. With a timid mother who cannot protect him and nothing but a faded polaroid of a father he never knew,
Clarence builds himself a mythology: that man with the gun is who he was meant to become.
When Mo, a powerful Triad boss, rolls through town, Clarence sees his blueprint. Using raw ingenuity and his best friend's connections to a local Native reserve, he parlays small-town hustle into a one-way ticket to the big city — and into the inner circle of a criminal empire. He rises fast, engineering an audacious cross-border gun-running operation that makes him indispensable. For the first time in his life, people fear him. Want him. Respect him.
But the hunger that drove him here has no bottom. Every act of power costs him a piece of himself — and the consequences he';s outrun are closing in. His mother is in danger he can't see coming. His best friend becomes a debt he can't escape. And the truth about his father threatens to detonate everything he's built his identity on.
Slant is a visceral, culturally charged crime drama about the seductive poison of power — and what's left of a man when the myth he's chased finally turns and faces him. With Wern Lee, Terry Chen, Stephen Dorff.
Monday, June 29
Doors 9:00 pm | Movie 9:30 pm *Start time subject to change Please arrive on time.
SLANT (Chester Sit, 2026 / NRA relentlessly bullied Asian kid from a small redneck town turns to crime to get the respect he craves. But when he joins a big-city Triad, he is soon forced to choose between gaining untold power and saving what’s left of his soul.
