‘Risk’ Documentary Director Rethinks Assange
Recounting the story of the WikiLeaks founder raised questions that Laura Poitras, an Oscar-winning documentarian, didn't necessarily intend to raise.
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Recounting the story of the WikiLeaks founder raised questions that Laura Poitras, an Oscar-winning documentarian, didn't necessarily intend to raise.
CITIZENFOUR director Laura Poitras turns her sights to another famous whistleblower with a much more complex past in her new Showtime documentary Risk ....
Never one to shy away from controversy, Laura Poitras’s (Citizenfour) latest documentary focuses on the life of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who currently remains in...
The exhibition expands on her project to document post-Sept. 11 America, engaging visitors in formats outside her nonfiction filmmaking.
Citizenfour director Laura Poitras’ first solo museum exhibit, Astro Noise, reflects on the very topics that have brought her acclaim as a documentary filmmaker:...
Citizenfour filmmaker Laura Poitras documents her own harrowing experience as the target of government surveillance in her new multi-media show at the Whitney, Astro...
The 'Citizenfour' director's immersive installation will focus on post–9/11 America.
Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) documents activist artist Ai Wei-Wei and Edward Snowden confidant Jacob Applebaum as they collaborate on a new piece called “Panda to...
In a New York Times TimesTalk last week, filmmaker Laura Poitras, journalist Glenn Greenwald and the infamous Edward Snowden reunited (Snowden via satellite) to...
As someone involved in video production, whether nonfiction or narrative, you should make time to see what I think is the most important film...
When you’re creating a documentary about one of the biggest whistleblowers in modern history–and one that’s about surveillance and government spying to boot–you can’t...
Citizenfour director Laura Poitras was already making a documentary about government surveillance when she was contacted by the ultimate source and subject, Edward Snowden....
Ars Technica’s Joe Mullin raves about Laura Poitras’ Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour, writing, “For those who have followed the news around the Snowden documents, even...
When you’re making a documentary as controversial as sensitive as Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’ film about Edward Snowden’s NSA leak, it only makes sense that...
The New Yorker‘s George Packer takes an in-depth look at how Citizenfour director Laura Poitras became front-page news herself when she helped publicize Edward...