There’s a huge marine base called Twentynine ... He challenged her to write the script for “Atropia” in only four weeks. “It was my most romantic writing experience because I was writing ...

By occasionally breaking character, switching roles and manipulating plans for their own gain, the characters meddle with Atropia’s military plans. Gates offers bits and pieces about the backstories ...

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 ...

So we went out there with a friend, a camera and sound, and we shot two days and we made this little thing and we sort of looked at each other. We were like, ‘why aren’t we doing this?

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical ... though it’s seldom explored from there on out. However, the contrast between meek, nervous individual soldiers (captured ...

“There are multiple levels of it. She can just push her performance a little too much just to sell it. My mom saw ‘Shako Mako’ [Gates’ short film that serves as the basis for ‘Atropia ...

but “Atropia” remains far too caught up in the scenario to look at anything resembling a bigger picture. Even when there are some occasional lines that start to get at a deeper, horrifying ...

There's a huge marine base called Twentynine ... 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 ...