Laura Poitras

Born in February 2nd, 1964

From Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Laura Poitras Biography

Laura Poitras is an Academy Award-winning American documentary film director and producer residing in Berlin. Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden. while My Country, My Country received a nomination in the same category in 2007.

 She won the 2013 George Polk Award for "national security reporting" related to the NSA disclosures. The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Barton Gellmancontributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

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Laura Poitras Movies

Terror Contagion Poster
September 3, 2021
Landfall Poster
August 22, 2020
XY Chelsea Poster
May 2, 2019
Ghosts of Sugar Land Poster
January 26, 2019
Shooting the Mafia Poster
January 25, 2019
In the Absence Poster
November 9, 2018
The Panama Papers Poster
October 14, 2018

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