Poitras and Glenn Greenwald reported on Snowden and the NSA for "The Guardian" and "The Washington Post," and earned two of journalism's most prestigious prizes - the Pulitzer and the George Polk Awards in 2014. Her Oscar-nominated film My Country, My Country, the first film in her Post-9/11 Trilogy, documents the U. Obviously, I still care about Field of Vision and there are so many films I worked on that I care deeply about.

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The Venice competition entry from the ‘Citizenfour’ director follows photographer Goldin’s advocacy and delves into its roots. Journalist John] Bruning's book claims that the battalion suspected the doctor of being an insurgent. I was thrilled that Nan was using her position of power in the art world to push for accountability. Yes, they have, but that was mainly (not exclusively, unfortunately) when there was probably cause, a warrant, or a history of criminal activity of the target. The film follows Nan through a youth spent finding her people, in the gay bars of Boston and Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the downtown Manhattan of the late 1970s and early 80s.It’s super personal for me because obviously I’ve been in those situations and went to extreme lengths to protect Edward Snowden where I had no legal department or security team to back me up.

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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". I do think that Donald Trump is dangerous and there are things you can see are unprecedented, but there is also a continuum in his policies. Significant support is provided by the Teiger Foundation, the Keith Haring Foundation Exhibition Fund, and The Reva and David Logan Foundation. She also expressed her disappointment for the “films that didn’t get nominated today that are exquisite films… It’s complicated, mixed emotions, but I’m really thrilled. Today, as the overdose crisis takes the lives of more than 100,000 Americans each year, the question of how these Sackler family members have evaded criminal accountability is not only one of retrospective justice, but also of prevention.I wanted to create juxtapositions and historical connections and emerge with a portrait of an artist. Heads of the NSA and other security agencies are shown in the film denying the existence of the surveillance program to Congress and on news programs.

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She completed her first film, a short about celebrity obsession titled "Exact Fantasy" (1998) before teaming with filmmaker Laura Goode Bryant to co-direct and produce her first long-form documentary, "Flag Wars" (2003).

What becomes clear from the film, which vividly details the cultural backdrop as well as Goldin’s work, is that fear has never been part of Goldin’s vocabulary, either creatively or personally. Last year, WikiLeaks exposed the Democratic party leadership’s bias against Bernie Sanders and for Hillary Clinton. For me, it’s so basic that that shouldn’t happen — particularly at a news organization, when you’re dealing with someone’s freedom. I’m really moved and also moved to be in the company of other films that are nominated,” Poitras commented.

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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. Someone else was found to charge the camera batteries and Poitras came on to a project that would document the protests, while also telling the extraordinary story of Goldin’s life and art. They said they weren’t going to make a public statement, and now I’m getting texts from people who work at The Intercept and learned about it on Twitter. 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. But according to Poitras, both films also placed her in the crosshairs of the Department of Homeland Security, which she claimed had monitored her since 2006 and subjected her to wiretaps, watch lists and on several occasions, detainment by government agents.I definitely wanted to avoid any kind of narrative of there’s this artist done in by their demons: I’m not interested in that story.