Weaving absurdism and romance, “Atropia” interrogates the Western perspective of the Middle East. Directed by Hailey Gates, the war satire film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The story ...

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Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Evansville. She fell in love with entertainment by watching shows about chaotic families like Full House ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Time for a cinematic litmus test. If the phrase “military industrial complex romantic comedy” rings your bells, Hailey Gates’ ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On paper, Hailey Gates possesses the necessary perspective to craft an incisive satire on this phenomenon. She is a ...

It’s been almost nine months since Hailey Gates’ “Atropia” won the top prize at Sundance Film Festival, and Los Angeles audiences finally have a chance to see it. The film will have its LA premiere as ...

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 of ...

Day 3 of the Sundance Film Festival continues with premiering films today, from writer Hailey Gates’ directorial debut, Atropia, to James Griffiths’ The Ballad of Wallis Island. Alia Shawkat, Callum ...

The war satire “Atropia,” about actors in a military role-playing facility, won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. dramatic competition, while the Dylan O’Brien movie “Twinless” ...

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 ...

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