Rachel Lauren Mueller (she/her) is a documentary director and cinematographer from the Colorado mountains whose films focus on themes of power, identity and rural life. With her background in investigative journalism, she creates films that interrogate power structures while embracing expansive imagination. Her forthcoming film, 8 DAYS AT WARE was awarded the Reva and David Logan Prize for Investigative Reporting and she has received support from the International Documentary Association, IF/Then Shorts, Berkeley FILM Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She has been a film fellow at UnionDocs, GroundTruth Films and Overseas Press Club and has a master’s in documentary from the UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She is in production on her first feature documentary, THE QUIET PART, about a town’s clash with their white supremacist pagan neighbors. She lives in Minneapolis where she attempts, in vain, to make her wisteria bloom.
