Bad Press


EDITOR / ASSOCIATE PRODUCER / ADDITIONAL CAMERA

When the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring its free press, a rogue reporter fights to expose her government's corruption in a historic battle that will have ramifications for all of Indian country.

🏆 Special Jury Award @ SUNDANCE FILM FESITVAL
🏆 CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARD NOMINATION
📀 Streaming on CRITERION COLLECTION

Dir. Joe Peeler & Rebecca Landberry-Baker

“Nothing Is Wasted in the Process of Documentary Editing”: Editor Jean Rheem on Bad Press
- FILMMAKER MAGAZINE


“Jean Rheem’s editing balances characterful detail and humor with considerable narrative propulsion. Like the political skullduggery it depicts, “Bad Press” tells a tale we’d love never to see played out again— yet watching it is undeniably entertaining.”
- VARIETY


“What ensues is a long battle that has all the trappings of a small-town political thriller: corrup officials, refuted elections, reporters fighting for their rights at the risk of their own livelihoods... It’s a story we’ve seen before, but never in this kind of setting.”
- HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“The filmmaking, confident and immersive, imbues the film with gravity. Context is efficient; characters are cultivated. Its procedural construction is thoroughly convincing, involving and educational. We care about the issue, but we care more about it because the issue comes with faces.”
- PASTE MAGAZINE

Landsberry-Baker and Peeler manage to capture—several times—that pit in your stomach feeling that occurs when you're watching the votes roll in for an election that has steep ramifications depending on its outcome.
- ROBEREBERT.COM

Accepted


EDITOR

The ambitious students of the TM Landry Prep School enjoyed a remarkable 100% acceptance rate into the country's most elite colleges until an explosive NY Times article exposed the controversial teaching methods of its dynamic founder.

🏆 EMMY AWARD NOMINATION for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary
⭐️ World Premiere @ TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 

🏆 Audience Award @ SIDEWALK FILM FESTIVAL  

📀 PBS POV

Dir. Dan Chen

Produced by Concordia Studio, Boardwalk Pictures, Diamond Docs & Jubilee Media

Brilliant. Essential viewing... a considered and affecting coming-of-age story.”
- HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Save My Seoul

EDITOR / PRODUCER / ADDITIONAL CAMERA

An unveiling of South Korea’s rampant prostitution and sex-trafficking secret and the young women it exploits

🏆 WINNER OF GRAND JURY AWARD @ LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
Streaming on Amazon Prime


Dir. Jason Lee & Eddie Lee

Take No Prisoners

ADDITIONAL EDITOR

A hostage negotiator races against time to free an LA lawyer from Venezuela's most feared prison, while the captive's family pushes for White House intervention. Footage reveals the intense world of international hostage recovery.

⭐️ Official Selection @ SXSW

Dir. Adam Ciralsky & Subrata De
Editor: Scott Sheppard
Produced by Vanity Fair


Made in Ethiopia


CONSULTANT EDITOR

Made in Ethiopia examines China’s increasing impact on Africa through the story of charismatic businesswoman Motto, who is tasked with expanding the biggest Chinese industrial zone in Ethiopia.


⭐️ WORLD PREMIERE @ TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL

Dir. Xinyan Yu & Max Duncan