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Sundance Film Festival features 'Bad Press' documentary: Mvskoke filmmaker takes tribal censorship to Sundance
Bad Press
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
By Sundance Film Festival
Angel Ellis is just trying to do her job. She’s a reporter for Mvskoke Media in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, and she wants to give her readers access to all the information relevant to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. But that’s not an easy task, given that Angel and her colleagues believe in truth and transparency and aren't afraid to challenge the integrity of some questionable tribal officials.
Fast-forward to a confusing whirlwind of an emergency session at the National Council, where the 2015 Free Press Act is repealed, Mvskoke Media's independent editorial board is dissolved, and the newspaper is placed under the direction of the Secretary of the Nation and Commerce. Now the real fight begins.
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Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler tell a nuanced, empowering tale of a modern Native community fighting for transparency and access to information in order to hold their government accountable. Bad Press is an energizing watch — full of humor, humanity, and numerous twists and turns.
Rebecca Landsberry-Baker, a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program grantee, is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee Nation and executive director of the Native American Journalists Association.
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