Becca Landsberry-Baker Filmmaker

Rebecca Landsberry-Baker is a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program grantee, Ford Foundation JustFilms grantee, and a 2022 NBC Original Voices Fellow. She is a 2022 Gotham Documentary Feature Lab Fellow and was selected to the Harvard Shorenstein News Leaders Fall 2022 cohort. She is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee Nation and the executive director of the Indigenous Journalists Association. Landsberry-Baker made her directorial debut with the documentary feature, Bad Press, at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression. The film was also recognized with Best Documentary Feature from RiverRun International Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival, Berkshire International Film Festival, and deadCenter Film Festival. It won Best Indigenous Feature Award at the 2023 Bend Film Festival. She and co-director Joe Peeler were awarded Best Directors at the 2023 Nevada City Film Festival.