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 CAMERAAn 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 EDITORA 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