EVENT, SCREENING
Bad Press
Sunday, Feb 4, 2024 at 5:30 pm
Location: Bartos Screening Room
Part of New Adventures in Nonfiction
With director Joe Peeler in person!
Dir. Joe Peeler, Rebecca Landsberry-Baker. 2023, U.S. 98 mins. In 2018, the Muscogee Nation, one of the only Native American tribes to have established its own free press, suffered a grievous setback to its civil liberties when members of its own legislative body abruptly repealed the three-year-old law guaranteeing protection of the media, with one representative citing a lack of “positivity” in coverage by the tribe’s chief outlet Mvskoke Media. In this spellbinding real-life tale of journalistic activism, filmmakers Peeler and Landsberry-Baker follow the struggle of reporter Angel Ellis as she organizes the Mvskoke Media and general populace to push through a constitutional amendment.
Tickets: $15 / $11 senior and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / free for MoMI members at the Senior/Student level and above. Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission. Review safety protocols before your visit.