Laura Poitras will receive the Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence at the Visionaries Tribute on Nov. 14 By Tatiana Siegel Laura Poitras - P 2013 DOC NYC, America’s largest ...
No documentary in history has ever scored a best picture nomination at the Oscars. Not “Hoop Dreams.” Not “The War Room.” Not “Harlan County, U.S.A.” All the classics of the genre failed to make the ...
Backstage producer Mathilde Bonnefoy said “We focused on the person Snowden. We tried with our film to show him, to give him a voice. His motives were pure. He’s a young man who decided to end his ...
Citizenfour is a simplistic tale of Snowden and white hats and black hats, where subtlety and context play little roles and the existence of smoke always indicates fire. About halfway through Laura ...
The same Kansas man who filed suit against Edward Snowden and the doc's makers also contacted the Academy, arguing that a prior airing of some of its footage violated three Academy rules By Scott ...
Be afraid. Be very afraid. This in essence is the message of “Citizenfour,” Laura Poitras’ highly anticipated documentary on Edward Snowden’s decision to expose the National Security Agency’s ravenous ...
Director Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour boasts an hour or so of tense, intimate, world-shaking footage you might not quite believe you’re watching. Poitras shows us history as it happens, scenes of such ...
In the last 16 months, the saga of Edward Snowden has played out so publicly that you might easily think we’d seen all there is to see — but you’d be wrong. While Greenwald has pieced out details from ...
The camera pulls into focus; an audible wave of laughter ripples through the audience. In front of the camera is Edward Snowden, the man behind last year's NSA leaks. The reason for the laughter? The ...
Reporting from NEW YORK — Many documentaries seek to kick-start environmental movements, reverse death row sentences or even change legislative policy. But few come with the kind of ideological ...
Melissa Block speaks with documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras about her new film, Citizenfour that charts her meeting with Edward Snowden and his subsequent revelations about government surveillance.
No documentary in history has ever scored a best picture nomination at the Oscars. Not “Hoop Dreams.” Not “The War Room.” Not “Harlan County, U.S.A.” All the classics of the genre failed to make the ...