Sundance project: Gates is the writer and director of "Atropia," starring Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny and Tim Heidecker. The movie, which is produced by Luca Guadagnino ...

Atropia, Hailey Gates' scattered debut feature ... role-playing facility through the eyes of Fayruz (an excellent Alia Shawkat), an aspiring actress who rotates between roles like Iraqi street ...

There’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates suggests in her ... At the heart of both the short and Atropia is Alia Shawkat’s Fayruz, whose Iraqi heritage and ...

There is a moment in Atropia, Hailey Gates’ bold and deeply unsettling feature debut, where an actress — played with biting precision by Alia Shawkat — wanders into what appears to be an ...

"Uncut Gems" actress and filmmaker Hailey Gates had her plans for a documentary ... based on a short film called "Shako Mak0." Star Alia Shawkat, who joined the project early in the development ...

“Atropia,” directed by Hailey Gates, won the U.S. dramatic ... “Atropia,” which stars Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner and Chloë Sevigny, follows an aspiring actor who falls in love with ...

By Kyle Buchanan The comedy “Atropia,” starring Alia Shawkat as an Iraqi-American ... “Atropia,” written and directed by Hailey Gates, has not yet sold to a distributor.

Hailey Gates turned her Miu Miu "Women's Tales" short film into a Sundance feature, starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner.