filmmaker // journalist // cinematographer
Select Press
The Quiet Part
Deadline
November 18, 2025
https://deadline.com/2025/11/fast-track-film-finance-market-2025-participants-exclusive-1236621368/
“We’re thrilled to welcome this year’s Fast Track participants, whose bold mix of fiction and nonfiction projects push creative boundaries and reflect the diverse voices shaping contemporary cinema,” said Film Independent’s Associate Director of Fiction Programs, Dea Vazquez.
Cineuropa
March 13, 2026
https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/490300
The industry section of the human rights festival has honoured five projects tackling HIV stigma, democratic resistance, extremism, inequality in science and resilience in Gaza.
Business Docs Europe
March 9, 2026
https://businessdoceurope.com/fifdh-impact-days-intl-pitch-the-quiet-part-by-rachel-lauren-mueller/
Producer Tilson believes director Rachel Lauren Mueller is more than capable of delivering “a compelling, nuanced story grounded in long-term relationship-building and deep listening,” she tells BDE. “Her ability to courageously allow the story and protagonists to speak for themselves in all their complexity...invites viewers to reflect and question their own complicity in contributing to polarization.”
8 Days at Ware // "Abuse, Chaos and Cruelty in Louisiana Juvenile Detention
Global Center for Journalism & Trauma
(formally the Dart Center)
May 4, 2023
https://gcjt.org/resources/2023-dart-award-winners-announced
Select praise:
“an incredible, daring feat of investigative journalism,”
“impeccable research,”
“exposing the interlocking self-interest that perpetuates trauma,”
“breaking the dam of inaction.”
Livingston Award Finalist
April 28, 2023
https://wallacehouse.umich.edu/announcing-the-2023-livingston-award-finalists/
The awards support young journalists and honor the best reporting and storytelling by journalists under the age of 35 across all forms of journalism. “The breathtaking range of this exceptional work [by all the finalists] demonstrates the unique ability of journalism to make us stop, take notice, bear witness, and expect accountability.”
KTBS - Louisiana
April 24, 2023
"'8 Days at Ware' film documents abuse at youth center in Coushatta"