Laura Poitras

Born: 1964-02-02

Laura Poitras is an Academy Award-winning American documentary film director and producer residing in Berlin. Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden. while My Country, My Country received a nomination in the same category in 2007. She won the 2013 George Polk Award for "national security reporting" related to the NSA disclosures. The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Barton Gellmancontributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.


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as Self
Released: 2014-10-10

In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many...

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Risk

as Self (voice)
Released: 2017-05-05

Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director...

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All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

as Self, co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
Released: 2016-11-04

Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the...

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Capturing Reality

as Self
Released: 2008-11-01

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like...

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Meeting Snowden

as Self - Journalist (archive footage)
Released: 2017-04-19

Moscow, Russia, December 2016. Edward Snowden, Larry Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir meet for the...

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The Daily Show

as Self
First aired: 1996-07-22

The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

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