Tina Satter

Trailer Watch: Tina Satter’s Sidney Sweeney-Starring Reality

The trailer arrives today for Reality, the feature debut of writer-director Tina Satter, who was profiled in our annual 25 New Faces of Film series last year. The film stars Sydney Sweeney as the titular Reality Winner, the NSA contractor who in 2017 was accused of and arrested for leaking classified documents about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections to The Intercept. All of the dialogue in Reality is mined from the real-life transcript of her interrogation over the course of a tense afternoon. In his interview with Satter ahead of the film’s premiere at the Berlin International Film […]
by Filmmaker Staff on May 15, 2023
“Second by Second, She is Trying to Game Out What to Say Next…”: Writer/Director Tina Satter on Her Sydney Sweeney-Starring Berlin Premiere, Reality

Tina Satter’s Reality opens with a high-angle shot of its eponymous heroine, Reality Winner, her blonde head poking up amongst a stretch of cubicle dividers in a Georgia NSA facility. It’s 2017 and above her on the walls are an array of television monitors, chyrons blaring, all tuned to the latest news about James Comey’s Congressional testimony regarding Russian election interference. The channel is Fox, and you don’t have to be at any particular place on the political spectrum to view this work environment as already an abusive one. Winner works translating Farsi to English, a task that requires sensitivity, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 20, 2023
Tina Satter

The language in Tina Satter’s Is This a Room is quotidian, banal. One sample exchange: “Do you have any pets?” “I do. I have two pets.” “Because you’ve been gone for a while, so do we need to maybe let them out and use the bathroom and stuff like that?” But as structured and placed within a conceptual frame by Satter, the dialogue—directly taken from two FBI transcripts of agents interviewing whistleblower Reality Winner at her home, as well as a phone call from Winner to her sister on a recorded jailhouse line—surgically reveals gendered power dynamics as well as […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 11, 2022

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