Laura Poitras Collection [DVD]

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She is a founding board member of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, on the advisory board of Forensic Architecture, and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences. Poitras said, "Nan's art and vision has inspired my work for years, and has influenced generations of filmmakers. 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".

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. 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. Laura Poitras ( / ˈ p ɔɪ t r ə s/; [3] born February 2, 1964) [4] is an American director and producer of documentary films. 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 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 and journalist Glenn Greenwald are the only two people with full archives of Snowden's leaked NSA documents, according to Greenwald. According to Poitras, Assange disapproved of the film because it included scenes showing his "troubling relationship with women". Her Oscar-nominated film My Country, My Country, the first film in her Post-9/11 Trilogy, documents the U. Sources and Secrets: A Conference on the Press, the Government and National Security" The Times Center presented by the George Polk Awards and hosted by The New York Times, in cooperation with CUNY TV, the Media Law Resource Center, and the Media Law Resource Center Institute.

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. 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. i>The Intercept, which the three of us created, is the first of what will be numerous digital magazines published by FLM. Poitras was one of the journalists who worked with Snowden to publicize the information along with journalist Glenn Greenwald. In the film, he argues that one of the women in question had potentially alternate motivation because she founded Gothenburg’s largest lesbian nightclub.She later revealed in her documentary Risk that she had a brief romantic relationship with Appelbaum. 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. We are very excited to welcome everyone to The Intercept, a publication of First Look Media (FLM).