Maddow's 'Kill. Bury. Print.' Wins David Carr Award — SkimNews
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- Rachel Maddow and director Ben Klein will receive the 2026 David Carr Award For Truth In Non-Fiction Filmmaking from the Montclair Film Festival for their documentary "Kill. Bury. Print."
- The film documents a family-run newspaper's standoff with the McCurtain County, Oklahoma sheriff's department, which Maddow first covered in 2023 after the paper released secretly-recorded audio of officials discussing killing and burying reporters.
- Maddow compared the story to "All The President's Men" meets "No Country For Old Men," calling it "brazen and thrilling" and noting it contains "sex, drugs, suspicious disappearances, a jailbreak, a spy pen, unspeakable crimes and an alleged murder plot."
- The documentary will screen at next month's festival with a post-screening Q&A on Saturday, Oct. 17 at 8:00 p.m. at the Wellmont Theater in Montclair, New Jersey.
- "Kill. Bury. Print." will debut on Peacock on Sunday, Sept. 27, marking Maddow's first true-crime documentary, first Peacock project, and first documentary to screen at a film festival.
- This is Maddow's third documentary with Surprise Inside — the production company she co-founded with former MSNBC president Phil Griffin — following 2024's "From Russia With Lev" and 2025's "Andrew Young: The Dirty Work."
Why it matters: The award and Oct. 17 festival screening position Maddow's third Surprise Inside documentary for maximum visibility ahead of its Sept. 27 Peacock debut — her first true-crime film and first streaming release — giving the McCurtain County sheriff scandal a national platform it didn't have when Maddow gave it seven minutes of her cable show in 2023.
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