Laura Poitras Collection [Blu-ray]

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She says she’s exhausted and could do with a break, but she’s hooked on film-making: surveillance and the intelligence services in particular. What would she like to do next? “I’d love to look at what’s happening in the investigation into Trump. I don’t think I am going to get that access!” she laughs. “I don’t think Comey would take my phone call, unfortunately. He’d be top of the list of people I’d love to film at the moment.” Her most recent film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival where it won the Golden Lion, only the second documentary to win the top prize in the festival’s history. The film was nominated for an Academy Award, won an Independent Spirit Award, and was named best documentary of the year by New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics. Poitras] treads new territory, presenting work that breaks away from the format of documentary filmmaking and moves into the realm of immersive art installations.” She says the whistleblower Chelsea Manning would be a more suitable person to compare Snowden with. What is the most annoying thing about Snowden? “He can lecture. He can get a little bit talky, if you watch some of his public appearances, but that’s not something that pissed me off.”

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When Laura Poitras signed on to do a documentary with Nan Goldin, she knew from the outset that she wouldn’t simply make “a [typical] biopic about a renowned person—it had to have a bigger engine.” This is, after all, a documentarian whose study of Edward Snowden, Citizenfour, won an Academy Award in 2015, and whose oeuvre, in her own words, tends to focus on “exposing power and corruption in the United States—and its empire.”In September 2021, Yahoo! News reported that in 2017, after the publication of the Vault 7 files by WikiLeaks, "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 ] Laura Poitras wants to make one thing absolutely clear. She still admires Julian Assange despite everything that has happened. But, it soon emerges, this is a mighty caveat. Ever since she brought Edward Snowden’s story to the masses with the Oscar-winning “Citizenfour,” Laura Poitras has built a career out of chasing the truth, even at the expense of her own safety. Last fall, it may have come at the expense of her job. In an open letter published Thursday, the documentary filmmaker said she was fired from First Look Media, the nonprofit investigative journalism entity that owns Field of Vision, the documentary production company where she did much of her work.

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Citizenfour' Director Laura Poitras Sues Over "Kafkaesque" Airport Screening". The Hollywood Reporter. July 13, 2015 . Retrieved July 14, 2015. In 2012, Poitras took an active part in the three-month exposition of Whitney Biennial exhibition of contemporary American art. [29] Government surveillance [ edit ] 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.The excerpt available here features a foreword by Adam D. Weinberg, an introduction by Jay Sanders, and a text by Cory Doctorow.

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Cate Blanchett and Colin Farrell won the top acting prizes. Blanchett won for her performance as a renowned conductor in Todd Field’s TÁR and Farrell for playing a man who has broken up with by his longtime friend in Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin. Lang, Brent (August 4, 2022). "Laura Poitras' All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Tapped as New York Film Festival Centerpiece Selection". Variety. Laura Poitras ( / ˈ p ɔɪ t r ə s/; [3] born February 2, 1964) [4] is an American director and producer of documentary films. [5] 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]Felicia R. Lee (October 1, 2012). "Surprise Grants Transforming 23 More Lives". The New York Times . Retrieved October 1, 2012. Poitras smartly includes President Obama condemning Snowden as unpatriotic and a danger to the American people, an argument going on even as you read this review. Curiously, the documentary makes no argument and goes easy on the suspense, making significant historical cinema but not gripping drama. WikiLeaks attorneys blast Citizen Four maker Poitras". Newsweek. May 17, 2017 . Retrieved April 4, 2019. The filmmakers created a safety net. “Nan and I could speak really freely,” said Poitras. “And she would have an opportunity later before it would be shared with anyone wider to see if there was anything that went too far. And when we had a cut, before we showed even Diane, nobody saw anything until Nan could have the opportunity to hear. There wasn’t really anything that she asked us to remove from the film.”