Sundance 2025: "The military was not so keen on the version of the doc that I wanted to make," director Hailey Gates says at TheWrap's Sundance studio The post ‘Atropia’ Director Explains How ...

Sundance project: Gates is the writer and director of "Atropia," starring Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny and Tim Heidecker. The movie, which is produced by Luca Guadagnino ...

There’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates suggests in her debut feature film, Atropia. Based on her 2019 short film Shako Mako, Gates expands her exploration of fake ...

There is no need to imagine. It is hard to believe that the world of facsimiles that Hailey Gates builds is not a product of pure fiction. “Atropia” was originally proposed as a documentary to ...

“Atropia,” directed by Hailey Gates, won the U.S. dramatic competition’s grand jury prize for its darkly comedic take on the intersection of war and performance, while Brittany Shyne’s ...

War, as it turns out, is just one big production. That’s the unsexy truth at the heart of Hailey Gates’ bizarre and bloody Bush-era satire. Based on the real-life military training camps that ...