DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
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
⭐️ U.S. DOC COMPETITION @ SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
🏆 Special Jury Award @ SUNDANCE FILM FESITVAL
🏆 CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARD NOMINATION
FORD FOUNDATION JustFilms Grantee
SUNDANCE Documentary Fund Grantee
NBCU Academy Original Voices Fellow
THE GOTHAM Documentary Fellow
Credit: EDITOR / ASSOCIATE PRODUCER / ADDITIONAL CAMERA
Dir. Joe Peeler & Rebecca Landberry-Baker
Bad Press
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
⭐️ U.S. DOC COMPETITION @ SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
🏆 Special Jury Award @ SUNDANCE FILM FESITVAL
🏆 CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARD NOMINATION
FORD FOUNDATION JustFilms Grantee
SUNDANCE Documentary Fund Grantee
NBCU Academy Original Voices Fellow
THE GOTHAM Documentary Fellow
Credit: EDITOR / ASSOCIATE PRODUCER / ADDITIONAL CAMERA
Dir. Joe Peeler & Rebecca Landberry-Baker
Press
“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
“I was on the edge of my seat watching "Bad Press”... we get a perspective on the Indigenous community that's honest, empowering, and relatable, but the documentary itself has the style and energy you'd expect from Netflix or even HBO... It educates. It entertains. It empowers. What more could you want?”
- SLASH FILM
“It is an unassuming documentary that makes excellent use of editing to deliver a compelling narrative experience... There is a flow to the documentary that gives the viewer an informed perspective without sacrificing emotional truth.”
- FILM THREAT
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
“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