Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Uncut Gems” actress and filmmaker Hailey Gates had her plans for a documentary about military training villages upended by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has taken North American rights to writer-director Hailey Gates’ satire Atropia, which was produced by Oscar ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was first published on January 31, 2025 out of the Sundance Film Festival. Atropia is now in select theaters. That mix between political satire and off-kilter romance sits at the heart of ...

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 ...

Based on her 2020 short "Shako Mako," Hailey Gates writes and directs "Atropia," a unique war satire about western views of the Middle East. While both its lampooning of U.S. militarism and its ...

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Hailey Gates’ feature debut has fun, insightful ideas, though it seldom expands on them. Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat, ...