Bad Press
Leaving August 31
•
1h 38m
Directed by Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler • 2023 • United States
A timely, riveting documentary that unfurls with the energy and suspense of a thriller, BAD PRESS—winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression—offers unparalleled insight into the inner workings of Indigenous politics. Imagine you lived in a world where your only reliable news source became government propaganda overnight. That’s exactly what happened to the citizens of the Muscogee Nation in 2018. Out of 574 federally recognized tribes, the Muscogee Nation was one of only five to establish a free and independent press—until the nation’s legislative branch abruptly repealed the landmark Free Press Act in advance of an election. Refusing to accept this flagrant act of oppression, one defiant journalist, Angel Ellis, charges headfirst into a historic battle against her tribal government’s censorship and corruption.
Up Next in Leaving August 31
-
Hotel Chevalier
Directed by Wes Anderson • 2007 • United States, France
Starring Jason Schwartzman, Natalie PortmanIn this prologue to Wes Anderson’s THE DARJEELING LIMITED, a man (Jason Schwartzman) and his former lover (Natalie Portman) reunite in a Paris hotel room for a charged encounter suspended between ...
-
Regarding Soon
Directed by Hal Hartley • 2004 • United States
Starring Hal HartleyHal Hartley offers a behind-the-scenes look at the production of his play “Soon,” a work inspired by the 1993 events in Waco, Texas, involving the religious sect called the Branch Davidians and their collision with the U.S. Fede...
-
Trouble Sleep
Directed by Alain Kassanda • 2020 • France, Nigeria
This freewheeling urban portrait follows two young men, Fred and Akin, as they navigate the crowded roadways of Ibadan, Nigeria’s third-largest city. Engineering graduate Fred is beginning a new job as a taxi driver, while Akin patrols a busy i...
