documentary filmmaker // investigative journalist // cinematographer
Film
projects directed by Rachel Lauren Mueller
8 Days At Ware
Two back-to-back suicides at a juvenile detention center in rural Louisiana raise troubling questions about the state’s justice system and exposes a legacy of abuse and neglect. (2022) 26 min. Co-director Meg Shutzer
WINNER - Best Short Documentary - Wyoming International Film Festival (Cheyenne, Jul. 2023)
Official selection - Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (Mammoth Lakes, May 2023)
Official selection - Double Exposure Film Festival (Washington D.C., Oct. 2022)
WINNER - Reva and David Logan Prize for Investigative Reporting (2020)
The Quiet Part
The arrival of a whites-only pagan church ignites the struggle for the soul of a American town. The film offers an unsettling look at the conditions that allow overt racism to fester and a disturbing warning about the normalization of extremism.(Forthcoming feature documentary)
Official selection - DOK Leipzig Co-Pro Market (Leipzig, Germany, 2023)
Recipient of the IDA's Pare Lorentz Grant (2021)