REALITY

On June 3, 2017, 25-year-old former American intelligence specialist Reality Winner is confronted by FBI agents arriving at her home. Based on true events, the dialogue from Tina Satter’s debut film starring Sydney Sweeney is taken directly from the transcript of tense, transfixing conversation from that day.

Twenty-five-year-old Reality Winner is confronted at her home by the FBI. A cryptic conversation begins and soon Reality’s life starts to unravel. With all dialogue taken directly from the FBI’s transcript of the interrogation — alternately nail-biting and banal, darkly funny and surreal — we track one woman’s experience of the U.S. government at work. And as more details of Reality’s life are revealed and more armed men arrive, a complex portrait emerges of an American millennial, yoga teacher, and veteran under siege.

  • Director/Writer: Tina Satter
  • Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchant Davis
  • Producers: Noah Stahl, Brad Becker-Parton, Riva Marker, Greg Nobile
  • 2023 Gotham Award Nominee for “Best Feature”
  • 2024 Critics Choice Award Nominee
  • 2024 PGA Award Nominee
  • Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2023
  • Official Selection Berlinale “Panorama” Section 2023