and Hailey Gates’ Sundance Jury Grand Prize-winning Atropia, on which Paradise City is a producer. It will continue to acquire some 10 films per year from independent producers and balance ...

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 ...

Atropia is the name of a fake Iraqi village that’s been ... Until the U.S. Government got in her way writer-director Hailey Gates had actually intended to make a full-length documentary about these ...

Hailey Gates’ Atropia delivers a sharp, self-aware war satire that skewers Hollywood’s portrayal of the Middle East and U.S. militarism. Set in a California training ground designed to mimic Iraq, the ...

That’s the unsexy truth at the heart of Hailey Gates’ bizarre and bloody Bush-era satire. Based on the real-life military training camps that dot the California/Nevada deserts, Atropia is a ...

Hailey Gates’ ambitious debut feature Atropia is full of comic potential that is never quite realised. The mixture of war games satire, deadpan farce and sweet romance provides amusement along ...

Dylan O’Brien delivered a career-defining performance at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival earning the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award.

Hailey Gates' war satire "Atropia" got mixed reviews from critics, but premiere audiences were very enthusiastic (as was the U.S. dramatic jury who gave it the festival's top prize). As of ...