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 ...
Notable past credits: As an actor, Gates has appeared in films like “Challengers” — which is how she connected with Guadagnino — and “Uncut Gems.” She hosted the Viceland series ...
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, is a feature ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Director Hailey Gates (debut) travels back to 2006 to explore Atropia through the eyes of aspiring actress Fayruz (Alia Shawkat, “The Final Girls”). Based on a real military simulation town, Medina ...
Hailey Gates’ “Atropia” and Brittany Shyne’s “Seeds” claimed the top jury awards at Sundance, along with audience favorites ...
An absurdist glimpse at workaday life within one of the very real, very strange U.S. military training grounds where role-players simulate foreign battlegrounds in order to prepare our troops for ...