Free virtual film screening offered

Smoke Signals is celebrating nearly nine years as one of the few independent Tribal publications in all of Indian Country. During the Indigenous Journalists Association 2025 Indigenous Media Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, held Aug. 13-15, Smoke Signals had the opportunity to chat with IJA board member, journalist and independent press advocate Angel Ellis (Muscogee (Creek) Nation). 

Ellis starred in the Sundance award-winning film “Bad Press,” which documents the struggle she championed for a free press within the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Ellis and the “Bad Press” producers have generously offered a free, virtual viewing of the film from Friday, Aug. 22 through Monday, Sept. 8. We invite the entire Grand Ronde community and others to watch this real-life struggle for sovereignty.

Click on the link below. Password: Angel2025!

After entering the password, scroll down and enter a second password (listed below “Watch the film”) to view it.

https://www.badpress.film/tribal-elections