Laura Poitras - Wikipedia. Laura Poitras (; born February 2, 1. American director and producer of documentary films.[4] She lives in New York City.[5]Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2. 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 2. She won the 2. 01. George Polk Award for "national security reporting" related to the NSA disclosures. The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen Mac.

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Askill, and Barton Gellman contributed to the 2. Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post.[9][1. She is a Mac. Dowell Colony Fellow, 2. Mac. Arthur Fellow, the creator of Field of Vision,[1. Freedom of the Press Foundation.

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Early life[edit]Born in Boston, Massachusetts,[2] Laura Poitras is the middle daughter of Patricia "Pat" and James "Jim" Poitras,[1. The Poitras Center for Affective Disorders Research at Mc. Govern Institute for Brain Research, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1. Her parents keep a home in Massachusetts, but live mostly in Orlando, Florida.[1. Her sisters are Christine Poitras, an ESL teacher; and Jennifer Poitras, a disaster response planner and consultant.[1. 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, where there were no grades and no division of students by age, she moved to San Francisco and lost interest in becoming a chef.[1. Instead she studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with experimental filmmakers Ernie Gehr and Janis Crystal Lipzin.[citation needed] In 1. Poitras moved to New York to pursue filmmaking.[1. In 1. 99. 6, she graduated from The New School for Public Engagement with a bachelor's degree.[1. Poitras co- directed, produced, and shot her 2. Flag Wars, about gentrification in Columbus, Ohio. It earned a Peabody Award, Best Documentary at both the 2.

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 also launched the 2. PBS TV series POV. It was nominated for a 2.

Independent Spirit Award and a 2. Emmy Award.[5] Poitras's other early films include O' Say Can You See.. Exact Fantasy (1.

Her 2. 00. 6 film My Country, My Country, about life for Iraqis under U. S. occupation, was nominated for an Academy Award. Her 2. 01. 0 film The Oath, about two Yemeni men caught up in America's War on Terror, won the Excellence in Cinematography Award for U.

S. Documentary at the 2. Sundance Film Festival.[2. The two films are parts of a trilogy. The third part Citizenfour from 2. War on Terror increasingly focuses on Americans through surveillance, covert activities, and attacks on whistleblowers.

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Poitras at Pop. Tech 2. Camden, Maine. On August 2. The New York Times published an "Op- doc" produced by Poitras entitled The Program.[2. 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 3.

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 2. 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 2.

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 2. 01. 2 Poitras took an active part in the three- month exposition of Whitney Biennial exhibition of contemporary American art.[2. Watch Grey Gardens Online Forbes on this page. 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 2.

Riyadh al- Adhadh, the Iraqi medical doctor and Sunni political candidate who was the subject of her 2. My Country, My Country.[2.

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".[2. 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.[2. In response to a Glenn Greenwald article about this, a group of film directors started a petition to protest the government's actions against her.[2. In April 2. 01. 2 Poitras was interviewed about surveillance on Democracy Now!

In January 2. 01. Poitras filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act[3. After receiving no response to her FOIA request, Poitras filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice and other security agencies in July 2. More than a year later, Poitras received 1,0. Watch Man Of Steel Mediafire here. The documents indicate that Poitras's repeated detainments were due to U.

S. government suspicion that she had prior knowledge of a 2. U. S. troops in Iraq, an allegation Poitras denies.[3. Global surveillance disclosures[edit]. Snowden speaking about the NSA leaks in Hong Kong; interview filmed by Poitras. In 2. 01. 3 Poitras was one of the initial three journalists to meet Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and to receive copies of the leaked NSA documents.[1.

Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald are the only two people with full archives of Snowden's leaked NSA documents, according to Greenwald.[1. Poitras helped to produce stories exposing previously secret U. S. intelligence activities, which earned her the 2. Polk award[citation needed] and contributed to the 2.

Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post.[citation needed] 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.[3. She later revealed in her documentary Risk that she had a brief romantic relationship with Appelbaum.[3.

She filmed, edited, and produced Channel 4's alternative to the Royal Christmas Message by Queen Elizabeth II in 2. Alternative Christmas Message", featuring Edward Snowden.[3. In October 2. 01.

Poitras joined with reporters Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill to establish an on- line investigative journalism publishing venture funded by e. Bay billionaire Pierre Omidyar,[4. First Look Media. Omidyar's "concern about press freedoms in the US and around the world" sparked the idea for the new media outlet.[4. The first publication from that group, a digital magazine called The Intercept, launched on February 1. Poitras stood down from her editor role in September 2. Field of Vision, a First Look Media project focused on non- fictionfilms.[4.

On March 2. 1, 2. 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 1.