Gates was familiar with the film set-like war simulation campuses from growing up in Southern California, where many are based. Much of the Sundance premiere audience was shocked to learn such ...

The Sundance Film Festival is regarded as one of the most ... 2023), Alessandra Lacorazza (In The Summers,2024) and Hailey Gates (Atropia, 2025). Heder’s film CODA would become the first ...

The annual Sundance Film Festival has rolled through the Utah mountains once again. Amid snow-capped trees and ski slopes, theaters across Park City lit up in celebration of independent film from ...

As festival programmers like to say, Sundance isn’t the end of the ... equation when it comes to judging the response to a film. Hailey Gates’ war satire “Atropia” got mixed reviews ...

While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027, the 2025 program, its 41st edition, kicked off January 23 in Utah, and you can look below for all of Deadline’s reviews from the fest.

At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, talk on the ground frequently turned ... I really dug the war satire Atropia, the feature debut of writer-director Hailey Gates. In 2006, wannabe Hollywood ...

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 ...