Premiering at Slamdance Film Festival 2026, Clovers drops us into Asheboro, North Carolina, once labeled the fastest-dying city in America, and refuses to let us look away.

Directed over a multi-year stretch by Jacob Hatley and Tom Vickers, the film centers on a quasi-legal strip mall casino and the orbit of people who land there when other structures collapse. What sounds like a gimmick becomes something heavier. The fish tables glow. The slots hum. The days blur. The house always wins.

"Clovers does something undeniable. It captures a pocket of America without filter or polish. It shows how boredom, loneliness, and financial instability create entire worlds. It shows how people can cling to hope in forms that look, from the outside, like self destruction. It shows how the next spin, the next election, the next day might be the one that changes everything." - Jessie Hobson, Cinedump

Filmmaker expected to attend.