BBC Storyville Picks Up Sundance Prize-Winning Doc ‘Bad Press’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: BBC Storyville has acquired U.K. rights to the Sundance prize-winning doc Bad Press. Directed by Rebecca Landsberry-Baker (Muscogee Creek Nation) and Joe Peeler, Bad Press debuted at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it picked up the U.S.
Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression. The film will hit BBC and iPlayer in 2024. Billed as a “political docu-thriller,” the doc charts the fight for a free press in the native Muscogee Nation.
Synopsis reads: Bad Press provides unparalleled insight into the inner workings of a modern Native American tribe. Just three years after its passage, the “Free Press Act” was repealed in 2018, placing Mvskoke Media, the Muscogee Nation’s sole news outlet, back under the control of the chief and his cabinet.
Veteran reporter Angel Ellis quickly becomes the key voice of dissent at the decimated news outlet and is willing to lay it all on the line to deliver the truth to her fellow citizens. “We’re thrilled to share our story with the world’s leading public service broadcaster at the BBC.
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