That the United States erects role-playing ... from a simulated war zone at an army base camp by secretly recording audition tapes for casting agents. In Atropia, Gates, who also wrote the ...

“Atropia” is a story driven by its characters, who are blindly pushed to support a war that they don’t understand in the name of patriotism. Beyond somehow protecting U.S. citizens, nobody in Atropia ...

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 ...

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 documentary ...

The committed performances of Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner plus the Sundance US Grand Jury prize should guarantee attention for an uneven but often engaging venture. The residents of ‘Atropia ...

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — 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 ...

The most fascinating elements of Atropia expose another layer of the military-entertainment complex, the mutually beneficial relationship between the film industry and the U.S. Department of Defense.