During Academy Award season, it’s easy for the public to perceive success as getting a nomination or winning the Oscar. And while most, if not all, actors, producers and filmmakers do revel in those ...

There’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates suggests in her debut feature film, Atropia. Based on her 2019 short film Shako Mako, Gates expands her exploration of fake towns ...