THE FILM
When the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring its free press, defiant Muscogee journalist Angel Ellis takes a stand to expose government corruption in a historic fight that will have ramifications for all of Indian Country.
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51 FILM FESTIVAL APPEARANCES
16 MAJOR FESTIVAL AWARDS

Screening and Q&A at The Atlantic Live Festival

Co-Director Joe Peeler Interviewed on Polish Radio

Protagonist Angel Ellis

Co-Director Rebecca Landsberry-Baker at The Dallas Morning News
“…THE PERFECT ILLUSTRATION OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DISMANTLE THE FOURTH ESTATE AND WIND UP PUTTING DEMOCRACY IN PERIL.”
“BAD PRESS TELLS A TALE WE’D LOVE NEVER TO SEE PLAYED OUT AGAIN —YET WATCHING IT IS UNDENIABLY ENTERTAINING.”
100% ON ROTTEN TOMATOES
34-CITY INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL RUN
Rebecca Landsberry-Baker is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the executive director of the Native American Journalists Association. She is a recipient of the 2018 NCAIED “Native American 40 Under 40” award and was selected to the Harvard Shorenstein News Leaders Fall 2022 cohort.
Joe Peeler is a Sundance award-winning director and editor whose work has appeared on NETFLIX, HBO, FX, ESPN, Hulu and CBS. Joe edited Lucy Walker’s documentary short THE LION’S MOUTH OPENS, which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards; Alden Ehrenreich’s SHADOW BROTHER SUNDAY, and multiple episodes of the Netflix original series FLINT TOWN.
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CRITIC’S CHOICE AWARDS NOMINATION
FOR BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM

Q&A at the Indigenous Journalists Association Conference

Co-Director Joe Peeler introducing BAD PRESS

Protagonist Angel Ellis