T here’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates suggests in her debut feature film, Atropia. Based on ...

Like many of the independent films that premiered at this muted edition of Sundance, “Atropia” has not yet sold to a ...

An aspiring actress in an army role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier in Hailey Gates' feature debut, which also ...

Sundance: Directed by "Challengers" actress Hailey Gates, "Atropia" gives the War on Terror it's own take on "The Truman Show ...

The war satire “Atropia,” about actors in a military role-playing facility, won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film ...

Callum Turner desperately wants to be bleeped, and Alia Shawkat's mother feared she couldn't act. Hailey Gates' new film pops ...

Atropia,' 'Seeds,' 'Twinless,' 'East of Wall,' and 'André is an Idiot' are the big awards winners at the 2025 Sundance Film ...

Set in a fake town, Hailey Gates’ feature debut 'Atropia,' premiering at Sundance, has fun, insightful ideas, though it ...

He challenged her to write the script for “Atropia” in only four weeks. “It was my most romantic writing experience because I was writing directly toward him,” she recalled. Gates and ...

Hailey Gates expands on her short to disappointing results, despite the best efforts of Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner ...

Hailey Gates turned her Miu Miu "Women's Tales" short film into a Sundance feature, starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner.

In Atropia, Gates, who also wrote the screenplay ... Gates shows the ease with which ordinary people contribute to the nation’s war machine. One wishes that the director had used this thread ...