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 ...

Seeds Win Top Prizes at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Hailey Gates’s war-training satire Atropia won today the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Brittany Shyne’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to the It List Sundance guide, where I’m sharing my picks for the best of the festival’s films ... Writer-director Hailey Gates told me on the red carpet that this movie is based ...

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 ...