Gates offers bits and pieces about the backstories of characters, revealing clues about why each is there and what they’re searching for in Atropia. The background characters are fleshed out to feel ...

Gates’ background as an actress, model, and former Vice journalist makes her uniquely suited to tell this kind of story. Atropia exists at the intersection of performance, media critique ...

Atropia has everything ... like Maria (Shaholly Ayers), prepare by connecting to the background of their characters. Most of her coworkers, like Noor (Zahra Alzubaidi), don’t care and correctly ...

“Atropia” never takes real shots at any of ... All that’s missing is a banner saying “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” to unfurl in the background.

In writer-director Hailey Gates’ directorial debut Atropia, she dives into the Bush-era culture of toxic masculinity, nationalism and Islamophobia with an amusing and profoundly absurdist sense ...

So she turned the idea into an unconventional love story instead, and “Atropia” was born. The film, which premiered on Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, was originally conceived as a ...

It’s a hellish war zone, and it’s entirely fake. This is Atropia, the fictional town named after a very real military training camp in the Nevada desert. It’s the subject of Hailey Gates ...

Sundance: Directed by "Challengers" actress Hailey Gates, "Atropia" gives the War on Terror its own take on "The Truman Show." Case in point: One early sequence in ...

Read full article: Roanoke Festival in the Park brings music and fun to Roanoke for the 56th year in a row PARK CITY, Utah – The war satire “Atropia,” about actors in a military role-playing ...

Like many of the independent films that premiered at this muted edition of Sundance, “Atropia” has not yet sold to a distributor. By Kyle Buchanan The comedy “Atropia,” starring Alia ...