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] I went public because I felt there needed to be accountability. But what I’d really like to see is Reality Winner get pardoned and released from prison. That’s coming from the government, which should never target whistleblowers, and I’ve been targeted myself. For the ‘Free Solo’ Directors, Making ‘Nyad’ Was Much Harder Than Hanging Off the Side of a Mountain

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Laura Poitras poses with the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, which she won last September for 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.' Domenico Stinellis (AP) Jonathon Braden (February 28, 2010). "Picturing a better vision". Columbia Tribune. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012 . Retrieved February 28, 2010. Peter Walker (December 24, 2013). "Edward Snowden broadcasts Channel 4's alternative Christmas Day message". the Guardian . Retrieved October 22, 2014. Russell also thanked Guadagnino. “He’s been a great friend to me and I love him so dearly,” she said.

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Assange, born in Australia and a computer programmer by profession, is the founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks. In 2011, to all intents and purposes he was WikiLeaks – the crown prince of transparency. Poitras says it took time for Assange to agree to access. At one point in the film, she says: “It’s a mystery why he trusts me because I don’t think he likes me.” Official Awards of the 79th Venice Film Festival". September 10, 2022 . Retrieved September 10, 2022. 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.” Your own work tends to appeal to people with a liberal view of the world. Greenwald seems to have migrated away from that, at least on the surface, when it comes to U.S. politics. It’s been hard to see him showing up on Fox News or fueling arguments that could’ve helped the Trump campaign last year.

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a b c "Julian Assange Is Not Ready for His Close Up". Foreign Policy. May 5, 2017 . Retrieved May 9, 2017. Dorfman, Zach; Naylor, Sean D.; Isikoff, Michael (September 26, 2021). "Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks". Yahoo! News . Retrieved September 26, 2021. a b c Maass, Peter (August 18, 2013). "How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets". NYTimes . Retrieved August 18, 2013. Lang, Brent (August 4, 2022). "Laura Poitras' All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Tapped as New York Film Festival Centerpiece Selection". Variety.

Runner-up went to Alice Diop’s Saint Omer, the narrative debut from the documentarian about a young novelist observing the trial of a woman accused of infanticide.