Rebecca Landsberry-Baker is an Indigenous woman with dark brown hair and light olive skin. She's wearing a beaded Muscogee collar and light blue jacket with a gray background. Black and white portrait.
Rebecca Landsberry-Baker
Photo courtesy Rebecca Landsberry-Baker

Rebecca Landsberry-Baker (she/her) is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the executive director of the Native American Journalists Association. Bad Press, her directorial debut, was supported by the Sundance Institute, Ford Foundation JustFilms, NBC, and The Gotham. The film premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the US Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression.

Program cohorts
Project: Hatched 2023
films by Rebecca Landsberry-Baker
Indigenous journalist Angel Ellis sits in front of Mvskoke Media wearing a bandana, sunglasses and a "Voted" sticker on her blue T-shirt. She's smoking a cigarette while scrolling through her cell phone on a warm summer evening.
Bad Press
Still from Bad Press
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Producer Yael Melameade looking directly at camera and smiling. Black and white photo.
Yael Melamede
Photo courtesy Yael Melameade
A photo of Producer Bob Moore. Black and white portrait.
Bob Moore
Photo courtesy Bob Moore
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