Vertical Acquires Sundance Jury Prize Winner ‘Atropia’

Vertical Entertainment has acquired the U.S. rights to “Atropia,” the winner of this year’s Sundance U.S. Grand Jury Prize for dramatic features, for a release this December.

Directed by Hailey Gates, the film stars Alia Shawkat as an aspiring actress at a military role-playing facility in the California desert who falls in love with a soldier, played by Callum Turner, who is cast as an insurgent. Their burgeoning romance threatens to derail the military exercises at Atropia, a facility described in the synopsis as “an invented land just close enough to Los Angeles for Hollywood set builders to create the fake villages, but far enough away that…