Vertical has released a trailer for the Sundance Grand Jury prize-winner Atropia.
Written and directed by Hailey Gates, the satire stars Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz, an aspiring actress working in a military role-playing facility who falls in love with another actor (Callum Turner) who is cast as an insurgent soldier, but their feelings soon threaten to derail the entire performance.
Joining Shawkat and Turner in the cast are Chloë Sevigny, Jane Levy, Tim Heidecker, Lola Kirke, Zahra Alzubaidi, Chloe East, Jamie McShane, and Tony Shawkat; check out the trailer below…
“When an aspiring actress (Shawkat) in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier (Turner) cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance. Welcome to Atropia: an invented land just close enough to Los Angeles for Hollywood set builders to create the fake villages, but far enough away that the performers who live on-site are not exactly flourishing in their acting careers.”
Atropia is set for release on December 12th.
