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Laura Poitras

April 08, 2024

Laura Poitras (/ˈpɔɪtrəs/;[3] born February 2, 1964)[4] is an American director and producer of documentary films.[5]

Laura Poitras
Poitras in 2014
Born (1964-02-02) February 2, 1964 (age 60)[1]
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.[2]
EducationThe New School
Occupations
  • Director
  • producer
Websitepraxisfilms.org

Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden,[6][7] while My Country, My Country received a nomination in the same category in 2007.[8] She won the 2013 George Polk Award for national security reporting related to the NSA disclosures.[9] The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Barton Gellman contributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post.[10][11][12][13][14] In 2022, her documentary film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which explores the career of Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler family, was awarded the Golden Lion, making it the second documentary to win the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.

She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, 2012 MacArthur Fellow, the creator of Field of Vision,[15] and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. She was awarded the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by Harvard's Nieman Foundation in 2014.

Poitras was one of the founding editors of the online newspaper, The Intercept.[16] On November 30, 2020, Poitras was fired by First Look Media, the parent company of The Intercept, allegedly in relation to her criticism of The Intercept's handling of the Reality Winner controversy.[17][18]

Early life edit

Born in Boston, Massachusetts,[2] Laura Poitras is the middle daughter of Patricia "Pat" and James "Jim" Poitras,[19] who in 2007 donated $20 million[20] to found The Poitras Center for Affective Disorders Research at McGovern Institute for Brain Research, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[19] Her parents keep a home in Massachusetts, but live mostly in Orlando, Florida.[20] Her sisters are Christine Poitras, an ESL teacher, and Jennifer Poitras, a disaster response planner and consultant.[19]

Growing up, Laura planned to become a chef, and spent several years as a cook at L'Espalier, a French restaurant located in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. However, after finishing Sudbury Valley School, she moved to San Francisco and lost interest in becoming a chef.[20] Instead she studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with experimental filmmakers Ernie Gehr[21] and Janis Crystal Lipzin.[citation needed] In 1992, Poitras moved to New York to pursue filmmaking.[22] In 1996, she graduated from The New School for Public Engagement with a bachelor's degree.[23][24]

Career edit

Poitras co-directed, produced, and shot her documentary, Flag Wars (2003), about gentrification in Columbus, Ohio. It received a Peabody Award, Best Documentary at both the 2003 South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival and the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, and the Filmmaker Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The film launched the 2003 season of the PBS TV series POV. It was nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit Award and a 2004 Emmy Award.[25] Poitras's other early films include O' Say Can You See... (2003) and Exact Fantasy (1995).[25]

Her film My Country, My Country (2006), about life for Iraqis under U.S. occupation, was nominated for an Academy Award. The Oath (2010), concerns two Yemeni men caught up in America's War on Terror, won the Excellence in Cinematography Award for U.S. Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.[26] The two films form parts of a trilogy. The last third Citizenfour (2014) details how the War on Terror increasingly focuses on Americans through surveillance, covert activities, and attacks on whistleblowers.

 
Poitras at PopTech 2010 in Camden, Maine

On August 22, 2012, in a forum of short documentaries produced by independent filmmakers, The New York Times published an "Op-doc" produced by Poitras entitled The Program.[27][28] It was preliminary work that was to be included in a documentary planned for release as the final part of the trilogy. The documentary was based on interviews with William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency, who became a whistleblower and described the details of the Stellar Wind project that he helped to design. He stated that the program he worked on had been designed for foreign espionage, but was converted in 2001 to spying on citizens in the United States, prompting concerns by him and others that the actions were illegal and unconstitutional and that led to their disclosures.

The Program implied that a facility being built at Bluffdale, Utah is part of domestic surveillance, intended for storage of massive amounts of data collected from a broad range of communications that could be mined readily for intelligence without warrants. Poitras reported that on October 29, 2012 the United States Supreme Court would hear arguments regarding the constitutionality of the amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that were used to authorize the creation of such facilities and justify such actions.

In 2012, Poitras took an active part in the three-month exposition of Whitney Biennial exhibition of contemporary American art.[29]

Government surveillance edit

Poitras has been subject to monitoring by the U.S. Government, which she speculates is because of a wire transfer she sent in 2006 to Riyadh al-Adhadh, the Iraqi medical doctor and Sunni political candidate who was the subject of her 2006 documentary My Country, My Country.[30] After completing My Country, My Country, Poitras claims, "I've been placed on the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) watch list" and have been notified by airport security "that my 'threat rating' was the highest the Department of Homeland Security assigns".[31] She says her work has been hampered by constant harassment by border agents during more than three dozen border crossings into and out of the United States. She has been detained for hours and interrogated and agents have seized her computer, cell phone and reporters notes and not returned them for weeks. Once she was threatened with being refused entry back into the United States.[32] In response to a Glenn Greenwald article on this issue, a group of film directors began a petition to protest against the government's actions towards her.[33] In April 2012, Poitras was interviewed about surveillance on Democracy Now! and called elected leaders' behavior "shameful".[34][35]

2015 lawsuit over government harassment edit

In January 2014, Poitras filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act[36] to learn the reason for being searched, detained and interrogated on multiple occasions.[37] After receiving no response to her FOIA request, Poitras filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice and other security agencies in July 2015.[38] More than a year later, Poitras received 1,000+ pages of material from the federal government. The documents indicate that Poitras's repeated detainments were due to U.S. government suspicion that she had prior knowledge of a 2004 ambush on U.S. troops in Iraq, an allegation Poitras denies.[39]

Global surveillance disclosures edit

Snowden speaking about the NSA leaks in Hong Kong; interview filmed by Poitras

In 2013, Poitras was one of the initial three journalists to meet Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and to receive copies of leaked NSA documents.[23][40] Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald are the only two people with full archives of Snowden's leaked NSA documents, according to Greenwald.[23][41]

Poitras helped to produce stories exposing previously secret U.S. intelligence activities, which earned her the 2013 Polk award[42] and contributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post.[citation needed][43] She later worked with Jacob Appelbaum and writers and editors at Der Spiegel to cover disclosures about mass surveillance, particularly those relating to NSA activity in Germany.[44][45] She later revealed in her documentary Risk that she had a brief romantic relationship with Appelbaum.[46]

She filmed, edited, and produced Channel 4's alternative to the Royal Christmas Message by Queen Elizabeth II in 2013, the "Alternative Christmas Message", featuring Edward Snowden.[47][48]

In October 2013, Poitras joined with reporters Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill to establish an on-line investigative journalism publishing venture funded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar,[49] which became First Look Media. Omidyar's "concern about press freedoms in the US and around the world" sparked the idea for the new media outlet.[50] The first publication from that group, a digital magazine called The Intercept, launched on February 10, 2014.[51] Poitras stood down from her editorial role in September 2016 to focus on Field of Vision, a First Look Media project focused on non-fiction films.[52]

On March 21, 2014, Poitras joined Greenwald and Barton Gellman via Skype on a panel at the Sources and Secrets Conference to discuss the legal and professional threats to journalists covering national security surveillance and whistleblower stories, like that of Edward Snowden. Poitras was asked if she would hazard an entry into the United States and she responded that she planned to attend an April 11 event, regardless of the legal or professional threats posed by US authorities.[53] Poitras and Greenwald returned to the US to receive their awards unimpeded.[54][55]

In May 2014, Poitras was reunited with Snowden in Moscow along with Greenwald.[56]

In September 2021, Yahoo! News reported that in 2017, after the publication of the Vault 7 files, "top intelligence officials lobbied the White House" to designate Poitras as an "information broker" to allow for more investigative tools against her, "potentially paving the way" for her prosecution. However, the White House rejected this idea. Poitras told Yahoo! News that such attempts were "bone-chilling and a threat to journalists worldwide."[57]

1971 documentary edit

1971 is a documentary film co-produced by Poitras.[58] The film, about the 1971 Media, Pennsylvania raid of FBI offices, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 18, 2014.[59]

Citizenfour (2014) edit

Main article: Citizenfour
 
Poitras introducing her film Citizenfour at the IFC Center in NYC on opening night
Film trailer for Citizenfour

Citizenfour is a documentary about Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, who had leaked classified information about the agency's surveillance practices to the media after working in Geneva. Poitras was one of the journalists who worked with Snowden to publicize the information along with journalist Glenn Greenwald.[60] The movie premiered on October 10, 2014, at New York Film Festival. In 2014, Poitras told the Associated Press she was editing the film in Berlin because she feared her source material would be seized by the government inside the U.S.[61] Film executive Harvey Weinstein said Citizenfour had changed his opinion about Edward Snowden, describing the documentary as "one of the best movies, period."[62]

In an interview with The Washington Post about Citizenfour shortly before the film's release, Poitras said that she considered herself to be the narrator of the film but made a choice not to be seen on camera:

"I come from a filmmaking tradition where I'm using the camera—it's my lens to express the filmmaking I do. In the same way that a writer uses their language, for me it's the images that tell the story ... the camera is my tool for documenting things, so I stay mostly behind it."[63]

Citizenfour won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 2014.[64]

Poitras is portrayed by actress Melissa Leo in the biographical drama film Snowden (2016), directed by Oliver Stone, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Snowden.

Astro Noise edit

Poitras's solo exhibition, Astro Noise, opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in February 2016, portraying immersive environments that incorporate documentary footage, architectural interventions, primary documents, and narrative structures to invite visitors to interact with the material gathered by Poitras in strikingly intimate and direct ways.[65]

Risk (2016) edit

Main article: Risk

Poitras authored a documentary called Risk, on the life of Julian Assange. According to Variety, the film shows Assange is "willing to put everything on the line, risking imprisonment and worse to publish information he believes the public has a right to know".[66]

Poitras and others described Assange's statements about women as "troubling".[67][66][68] Assange alleges in the film that he is the victim of a radical feminist conspiracy over his being wanted for questioning on sexual assault allegations by the Swedish authorities.[68] In the film, he argues that one of the women in question had potentially alternate motivation because she founded Gothenburg’s largest lesbian nightclub.[68] According to Poitras, Assange disapproved of the film because it included scenes showing his "troubling relationship with women".[66]

In May 2017, WikiLeaks' four lawyers publicly wrote an opinion piece for Newsweek stating that the film serves to undermine WikiLeaks at a time when the Trump administration announced that it intends to prosecute journalists, editors and associates of WikiLeaks. The lawyers also scrutinize the way in which Poitras changed the film after its premiere in 2016 as well as other critical aspects.[69][non-primary source needed]

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) edit

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a 2022 documentary film which examines the life and career of photographer and activist Nan Goldin and her efforts to hold Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, accountable for the opioid epidemic. Goldin, a well known photographer whose work often documented the LGBT subcultures and the HIV/AIDS crisis, founded the advocacy group P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) in 2017 after her own addiction to Oxycontin. P.A.I.N. specifically targets museums and other arts institutions to hold the art community accountable for its collaboration with the Sackler family and their well publicized financial support of the arts. The film was directed by Poitras.[70][71] Poitras said, "Nan's art and vision has inspired my work for years, and has influenced generations of filmmakers."[72] The film premiered on September 3, 2022, at the 79th Venice International Film Festival,[73] where it was awarded the Golden Lion making it the second documentary (following Sacro GRA in 2013) to win the top prize at Venice.[74] It also will screen at the 2022 New York Film Festival,[71] where it will be the festival's centerpiece film and the official poster will be designed by Goldin.[75] The film's distributor, Neon, said that the theatrical release would coincide with a retrospective of Goldin's work at the Moderna Museet, set to open October 29, 2022.[72]

Selected awards and honours edit

Selected filmography edit

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Laura Poitras ˈ p ɔɪ t r e s 3 born February 2 1964 4 is an American director and producer of documentary films 5 Laura PoitrasPoitras in 2014Born 1964 02 02 February 2 1964 age 60 1 Boston Massachusetts U S 2 EducationThe New SchoolOccupationsDirector producerWebsitepraxisfilms wbr orgPoitras has received numerous awards for her work including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour about Edward Snowden 6 7 while My Country My Country received a nomination in the same category in 2007 8 She won the 2013 George Polk Award for national security reporting related to the NSA disclosures 9 The NSA reporting by Poitras Glenn Greenwald Ewen MacAskill and Barton Gellman contributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post 10 11 12 13 14 In 2022 her documentary film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed which explores the career of Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler family was awarded the Golden Lion making it the second documentary to win the top prize at the Venice Film Festival She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow 2012 MacArthur Fellow the creator of Field of Vision 15 and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation She was awarded the I F Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by Harvard s Nieman Foundation in 2014 Poitras was one of the founding editors of the online newspaper The Intercept 16 On November 30 2020 Poitras was fired by First Look Media the parent company of The Intercept allegedly in relation to her criticism of The Intercept s handling of the Reality Winner controversy 17 18 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Government surveillance 2 1 1 2015 lawsuit over government harassment 2 2 Global surveillance disclosures 2 3 1971 documentary 2 4 Citizenfour 2014 2 5 Astro Noise 2 6 Risk 2016 2 7 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2022 3 Selected awards and honours 4 Selected filmography 5 References 6 External linksEarly life editBorn in Boston Massachusetts 2 Laura Poitras is the middle daughter of Patricia Pat and James Jim Poitras 19 who in 2007 donated 20 million 20 to found The Poitras Center for Affective Disorders Research at McGovern Institute for Brain Research part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 19 Her parents keep a home in Massachusetts but live mostly in Orlando Florida 20 Her sisters are Christine Poitras an ESL teacher and Jennifer Poitras a disaster response planner and consultant 19 Growing up Laura planned to become a chef and spent several years as a cook at L Espalier a French restaurant located in Boston s Back Bay neighborhood However after finishing Sudbury Valley School she moved to San Francisco and lost interest in becoming a chef 20 Instead she studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with experimental filmmakers Ernie Gehr 21 and Janis Crystal Lipzin citation needed In 1992 Poitras moved to New York to pursue filmmaking 22 In 1996 she graduated from The New School for Public Engagement with a bachelor s degree 23 24 Career editPoitras co directed produced and shot her documentary Flag Wars 2003 about gentrification in Columbus Ohio It received a Peabody Award Best Documentary at both the 2003 South by Southwest SXSW film festival and the Seattle Lesbian amp Gay Film Festival and the Filmmaker Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival The film launched the 2003 season of the PBS TV series POV It was nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit Award and a 2004 Emmy Award 25 Poitras s other early films include O Say Can You See 2003 and Exact Fantasy 1995 25 Her film My Country My Country 2006 about life for Iraqis under U S occupation was nominated for an Academy Award The Oath 2010 concerns two Yemeni men caught up in America s War on Terror won the Excellence in Cinematography Award for U S Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival 26 The two films form parts of a trilogy The last third Citizenfour 2014 details how the War on Terror increasingly focuses on Americans through surveillance covert activities and attacks on whistleblowers nbsp Poitras at PopTech 2010 in Camden MaineOn August 22 2012 in a forum of short documentaries produced by independent filmmakers The New York Times published an Op doc produced by Poitras entitled The Program 27 28 It was preliminary work that was to be included in a documentary planned for release as the final part of the trilogy The documentary was based on interviews with William Binney a 32 year veteran of the National Security Agency who became a whistleblower and described the details of the Stellar Wind project that he helped to design He stated that the program he worked on had been designed for foreign espionage but was converted in 2001 to spying on citizens in the United States prompting concerns by him and others that the actions were illegal and unconstitutional and that led to their disclosures The Program implied that a facility being built at Bluffdale Utah is part of domestic surveillance intended for storage of massive amounts of data collected from a broad range of communications that could be mined readily for intelligence without warrants Poitras reported that on October 29 2012 the United States Supreme Court would hear arguments regarding the constitutionality of the amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that were used to authorize the creation of such facilities and justify such actions In 2012 Poitras took an active part in the three month exposition of Whitney Biennial exhibition of contemporary American art 29 Government surveillance edit Poitras has been subject to monitoring by the U S Government which she speculates is because of a wire transfer she sent in 2006 to Riyadh al Adhadh the Iraqi medical doctor and Sunni political candidate who was the subject of her 2006 documentary My Country My Country 30 After completing My Country My Country Poitras claims I ve been placed on the Department of Homeland Security s DHS watch list and have been notified by airport security that my threat rating was the highest the Department of Homeland Security assigns 31 She says her work has been hampered by constant harassment by border agents during more than three dozen border crossings into and out of the United States She has been detained for hours and interrogated and agents have seized her computer cell phone and reporters notes and not returned them for weeks Once she was threatened with being refused entry back into the United States 32 In response to a Glenn Greenwald article on this issue a group of film directors began a petition to protest against the government s actions towards her 33 In April 2012 Poitras was interviewed about surveillance on Democracy Now and called elected leaders behavior shameful 34 35 2015 lawsuit over government harassment edit In January 2014 Poitras filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act 36 to learn the reason for being searched detained and interrogated on multiple occasions 37 After receiving no response to her FOIA request Poitras filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice and other security agencies in July 2015 38 More than a year later Poitras received 1 000 pages of material from the federal government The documents indicate that Poitras s repeated detainments were due to U S government suspicion that she had prior knowledge of a 2004 ambush on U S troops in Iraq an allegation Poitras denies 39 Global surveillance disclosures edit source source source source source source source track track Snowden speaking about the NSA leaks in Hong Kong interview filmed by PoitrasIn 2013 Poitras was one of the initial three journalists to meet Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and to receive copies of leaked NSA documents 23 40 Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald are the only two people with full archives of Snowden s leaked NSA documents according to Greenwald 23 41 Poitras helped to produce stories exposing previously secret U S intelligence activities which earned her the 2013 Polk award 42 and contributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post citation needed 43 She later worked with Jacob Appelbaum and writers and editors at Der Spiegel to cover disclosures about mass surveillance particularly those relating to NSA activity in Germany 44 45 She later revealed in her documentary Risk that she had a brief romantic relationship with Appelbaum 46 She filmed edited and produced Channel 4 s alternative to the Royal Christmas Message by Queen Elizabeth II in 2013 the Alternative Christmas Message featuring Edward Snowden 47 48 In October 2013 Poitras joined with reporters Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill to establish an on line investigative journalism publishing venture funded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar 49 which became First Look Media Omidyar s concern about press freedoms in the US and around the world sparked the idea for the new media outlet 50 The first publication from that group a digital magazine called The Intercept launched on February 10 2014 51 Poitras stood down from her editorial role in September 2016 to focus on Field of Vision a First Look Media project focused on non fiction films 52 On March 21 2014 Poitras joined Greenwald and Barton Gellman via Skype on a panel at the Sources and Secrets Conference to discuss the legal and professional threats to journalists covering national security surveillance and whistleblower stories like that of Edward Snowden Poitras was asked if she would hazard an entry into the United States and she responded that she planned to attend an April 11 event regardless of the legal or professional threats posed by US authorities 53 Poitras and Greenwald returned to the US to receive their awards unimpeded 54 55 In May 2014 Poitras was reunited with Snowden in Moscow along with Greenwald 56 In September 2021 Yahoo News reported that in 2017 after the publication of the Vault 7 files top intelligence officials lobbied the White House to designate Poitras as an information broker to allow for more investigative tools against her potentially paving the way for her prosecution However the White House rejected this idea Poitras told Yahoo News that such attempts were bone chilling and a threat to journalists worldwide 57 1971 documentary edit 1971 is a documentary film co produced by Poitras 58 The film about the 1971 Media Pennsylvania raid of FBI offices premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 18 2014 59 Citizenfour 2014 edit Main article Citizenfour nbsp Poitras introducing her film Citizenfour at the IFC Center in NYC on opening night source source source source source source source track track Film trailer for CitizenfourCitizenfour is a documentary about Edward Snowden a former NSA contractor who had leaked classified information about the agency s surveillance practices to the media after working in Geneva Poitras was one of the journalists who worked with Snowden to publicize the information along with journalist Glenn Greenwald 60 The movie premiered on October 10 2014 at New York Film Festival In 2014 Poitras told the Associated Press she was editing the film in Berlin because she feared her source material would be seized by the government inside the U S 61 Film executive Harvey Weinstein said Citizenfour had changed his opinion about Edward Snowden describing the documentary as one of the best movies period 62 In an interview with The Washington Post about Citizenfour shortly before the film s release Poitras said that she considered herself to be the narrator of the film but made a choice not to be seen on camera I come from a filmmaking tradition where I m using the camera it s my lens to express the filmmaking I do In the same way that a writer uses their language for me it s the images that tell the story the camera is my tool for documenting things so I stay mostly behind it 63 Citizenfour won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 2014 64 Poitras is portrayed by actress Melissa Leo in the biographical drama film Snowden 2016 directed by Oliver Stone and starring Joseph Gordon Levitt as Snowden Astro Noise edit Poitras s solo exhibition Astro Noise opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in February 2016 portraying immersive environments that incorporate documentary footage architectural interventions primary documents and narrative structures to invite visitors to interact with the material gathered by Poitras in strikingly intimate and direct ways 65 Risk 2016 edit Main article Risk Poitras authored a documentary called Risk on the life of Julian Assange According to Variety the film shows Assange is willing to put everything on the line risking imprisonment and worse to publish information he believes the public has a right to know 66 Poitras and others described Assange s statements about women as troubling 67 66 68 Assange alleges in the film that he is the victim of a radical feminist conspiracy over his being wanted for questioning on sexual assault allegations by the Swedish authorities 68 In the film he argues that one of the women in question had potentially alternate motivation because she founded Gothenburg s largest lesbian nightclub 68 According to Poitras Assange disapproved of the film because it included scenes showing his troubling relationship with women 66 In May 2017 WikiLeaks four lawyers publicly wrote an opinion piece for Newsweek stating that the film serves to undermine WikiLeaks at a time when the Trump administration announced that it intends to prosecute journalists editors and associates of WikiLeaks The lawyers also scrutinize the way in which Poitras changed the film after its premiere in 2016 as well as other critical aspects 69 non primary source needed All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2022 edit All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a 2022 documentary film which examines the life and career of photographer and activist Nan Goldin and her efforts to hold Purdue Pharma owned by the Sackler family accountable for the opioid epidemic Goldin a well known photographer whose work often documented the LGBT subcultures and the HIV AIDS crisis founded the advocacy group P A I N Prescription Addiction Intervention Now in 2017 after her own addiction to Oxycontin P A I N specifically targets museums and other arts institutions to hold the art community accountable for its collaboration with the Sackler family and their well publicized financial support of the arts The film was directed by Poitras 70 71 Poitras said Nan s art and vision has inspired my work for years and has influenced generations of filmmakers 72 The film premiered on September 3 2022 at the 79th Venice International Film Festival 73 where it was awarded the Golden Lion making it the second documentary following Sacro GRA in 2013 to win the top prize at Venice 74 It also will screen at the 2022 New York Film Festival 71 where it will be the festival s centerpiece film and the official poster will be designed by Goldin 75 The film s distributor Neon said that the theatrical release would coincide with a retrospective of Goldin s work at the Moderna Museet set to open October 29 2022 72 Selected awards and honours edit2008 Creative Capital Award in Moving Image 76 2010 True Vision Award True False Film Festival Columbia MO 77 2010 Anonymous Was A Woman Award 78 2012 MacArthur Fellowship 79 80 2013 Electronic Frontier Foundation s Pioneer Award with three other people 81 2013 George Polk Award for National Security Reporting with Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill 82 2014 Ridenhour Truth Telling Prize with Edward Snowden 83 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded to The Washington Post and The Guardian for the NSA reporting on which she worked along with Barton Gellman Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill 84 85 2014 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers awarded to The Washington Post for five stories on the NSA 86 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour 64 2015 German Film Award for Best Documentary Film for Citizenfour 87 2022 Golden Lion Venice Film Festival for All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 88 Selected filmography edit nbsp United States portal nbsp Biography portal nbsp Film portal nbsp Journalism portalExact Fantasy 1995 Flag Wars 2003 Oh Say Can You See 2003 My Country My Country 2006 The Oath 2010 Citizenfour 2014 Risk 2016 The Year of the Everlasting Storm 2021 Terror Contagion 2021 89 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2022 References edit Citizenfour Motion picture 2014 Noted on US Customs and Border Protection logs shown at 0 04 40 a b Laura Poitras Whitney Museum of American Art Archived from the original on December 20 2014 Retrieved January 3 2015 What it s like to turn the camera on Snowden and Assange PBS NewsHour July 21 2017 Archived from the original on December 15 2021 Retrieved July 10 2021 Laura Poitras Talks Citizenfour Nomination Nominees Night Party The 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Peter August 18 2013 How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets NYTimes Retrieved August 18 2013 Laura Poitras Secret No Longer August 14 2013 Retrieved August 14 2013 a b ZEIT ONLINE GmbH Hamburg Germany August 19 2013 NSA Affare Die Berliner Snowden Connection ZEIT ONLINE Retrieved October 22 2014 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link The Oath Honored at the Sundance Film Festival Beyond the Box October 20 2001 Archived from the original on November 28 2010 Poitras Laura The Program New York Times Op Docs August 22 2012 Poitras Laura August 29 2012 Op Docs ed NSA Whistle Blower Tells All The Program Uploaded by The New York Times via YouTube Retrieved October 21 2014 The filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney a 32 year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans personal data Roberta Smith March 1 2012 A Survey of a Different Color 2012 Whitney Biennial NY Times Retrieved March 5 2012 Packer George October 20 2014 The Holder of Secrets Laura Poitras s closeup view of Edward Snowden Profiles The New Yorker Vol 90 no 32 pp 50 59 Retrieved February 10 2015 Then again Poitras told me the trigger may have been a wire transfer that she sent in 2006 to Dr Riyadh when his family fled Iraq s civil war Journalist John Bruning s book claims that the battalion suspected the doctor of being an insurgent There is no evidence for this either My Country My Country Film Synopsis PBS Retrieved May 27 2007 Glenn Greenwald April 8 2012 U S filmmaker repeatedly detained at border Salon archived from the original on April 8 2012 retrieved May 2 2016 Mike Flemming Documentary Directors Protest Homeland Security Treatment Of Helmer Laura Poitras Deadline Hollywood April 9 2012 Democracy Now April 23 2012 More Secrets on State Surveillance Exclusive Part 2 With NSA Whistleblower Targeted Hacker Democracy Now via YouTube 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