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Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations". Guardian. April 14, 2014 . Retrieved April 20, 2014. Creative Capital (January 10, 2008). "Laura Poitras". Creative Capital. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015 . Retrieved December 3, 2015. I’m a passionate believer in the independent documentary film community. When I was hired by First Look Media and described Field of Vision, I said that I wanted to get resources to the filmmakers who are doing vital reporting. I’m very confident that will continue in the documentary community and some of that will be supported by Field of Vision. There’s a lot to be concerned about in terms of the incoming administration. The Obama administration, in which Biden was vice president, targeted more whistleblowers than previous presidents combined. I hope there’s a change in terms of how Biden’s justice department uses the Espionage Act. I hope they stop abusing it. 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. I hope the Biden administration changes course on many of them.

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Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get more English-language news coverage from EL PAÍS USA Edition That’s when Poitras, with help from the late Participant executive Diane Weyermann, made a deal with Goldin to do a series of audio interviews at her house. “I knew it was going to give me a kind of intimacy that wouldn’t be there if there was a camera and a crew,” said Poitras. “It was just an instinct.” One of your missions as a museum is to create a platform for artists who make socially conscious art, who are compelled to deal with social and political issues. . . . Laura was an original, strong and compelling voice in all that." Foreman, Alison (September 10, 2022). " 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' wins Golden Lion at Venice: All the Winners". Deadline . Retrieved September 10, 2022.Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden And Laura Poitras Reunite for a Selfie in Moscow". Huffington Post. May 22, 2014 . Retrieved June 6, 2014. Poitras authored a documentary called Risk, on the life of Julian Assange. According to Variety, the film shows Assange is "willing to put everything on the line, risking imprisonment and worse to publish information he believes the public has a right to know". [66]

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What it's like to turn the camera on Snowden and Assange". PBS NewsHour. July 21, 2017. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021 . Retrieved July 10, 2021. The Oath Honored at the Sundance Film Festival". Beyond the Box. October 20, 2001. Archived from the original on November 28, 2010. 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.”Boadle, Anthony (August 7, 2013). "New U.S. spying revelations coming from Snowden leaks -journalist". Reuters UK . Retrieved August 7, 2013. This Museum Is Being Watched: At the Whitney, Filmmaker Laura Poitras Transforms Evidence Into Art." The filmmaker, journalist and artist has done some of her most high-profile work in her 50s."Citizenfour," her film about Wikileaks founder Edward Snowden, won the Best Documentary Oscar in 2015 when Poitras was 51. There are great people doing work there. Ryan Grim’s political work is so important. Obviously, I still care about Field of Vision and there are so many films I worked on that I care deeply about. But I really question the leadership and it’s not just because of how they handled me. Many people have experienced the retaliatory culture. The departure of Anna Holmes was really a sad situation for First Look Media. She was probably the most talented person on the digital side, really a visionary, and she resigned when they terminated her staff. That’s just tragic, when you lose these people whose vision is exactly what you need to build an organization. She was never looped into the business side of the organization despite her experience. [Feature film senior vice president] Annie Marter’s departure was really awful and hurt the film side of the organization. I spoke on behalf of both of them when this happened. On the one hand, there’s great work done there and will continue to be done there. But I made the decision to go publicly because of the seriousness of the Reality Winner situation. This has real impact on somebody who’s in prison and felt I needed to speak. The Boston-born filmmaker has found a new outlet to bring home the realities of the surveillance state to Americans.”

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Laura Poitras Talks 'Citizenfour' Nomination: Nominees Night Party", The Hollywood Reporter, archived from the original on April 5, 2015 Video interview. Pronunciation confirmed at beginning of video. Ellison, Sarah (January 14, 2021). "Laura Poitras says she's been fired by First Look Media over Reality Winner controversy. Now she's questioning the watchdog's integrity". The Washington Post . Retrieved January 15, 2021. Glenn Greenwald Reacts To Pulitzer Prize". The Huffington Post. April 20, 2014 . Retrieved October 22, 2014.Now the filmmaker, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and artist has her first solo exhibit. "Astro Noise" is a series of installations that explore topics including mass surveillance, Guantánamo Bay, the war on terror and torture." You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here. You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. Simply log into Settings & Account and select "Cancel" on the right-hand side. Her most recent film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival where it won the Golden Lion, only the second documentary to win the top prize in the festival’s history. 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. As to the source of her courageous badassery, the film traces a life-shaping vein. The heart of the film — and, arguably, of Goldin’s work — is her beloved older sister, Barbara, a rebellious nonconformist who was too full of life for their parents to handle. Instead they and some of the doctors they consulted silenced their firstborn with the label of mental illness. Her story is an unbearable one — her pain, her terrible death, her mother’s mode of denial. The suburban neighbors must not know about their domestic turmoil and its awful depths. The art world must not think about the source of all that cash aimed its way by museum benefactors. In The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, the 1985 slideshow and 1986 book that’s generally regarded as Goldin’s masterpiece, she included self-portraits that showed her scarred and bruised from a brutal battering by her ex-boyfriend. In her self-examination, in her embrace of people’s tough-to-look-at struggles, her ethos has been a rejection of shame.

Laura Poitras on her WikiLeaks film Risk: ‘I knew Julian Laura Poitras on her WikiLeaks film Risk: ‘I knew Julian

When we interviewed Edward Snowden, we had about a week where we were publishing stories before his name was public. Those days are precious in terms of telling the public the information that somebody risks their live to expose, and also to give the whistleblower a chance to talk to a lawyer. If I had made the same mistakes that The Intercept made with Edward Snowden, he would’ve been arrested and that would’ve been the first story. Think about how different his life would’ve been if I’d made those kinds of errors. Zeitchik, Steven (May 6, 2017). "With Laura Poitras' re-cut 'Risk,' a director controversially changes her mind about Julian Assange". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035 . Retrieved May 9, 2017. It is hard to watch Risk and not compare it with Citizenfour. In fact, for a long time Poitras thought they were going to be one and the same film. Assange and Snowden seem such different men, I say. “I don’t feel it’s my job to judge and compare them – but, yes, they have different motivations. Certainly, my feelings that come through in the film are much more conflicted.” Is there a moral purity to what Snowden did? “People would ask me when I was releasing the film: Is he a hero? People are defined by their actions, and he did something deeply heroic. And I think it was selfless. He knew the consequences could be the end of his freedom or the end of his life.”Her life has changed considerably since making Citizenfour. At times, she has felt scared for her own safety. “Right after the Snowden stuff, I knew I was being followed by intelligence agencies. I felt really nervous about threats from the government, private contractors, intelligence agencies all over the world. There are a lot of bad actors out there. But I have to keep doing the work.” 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] Poitras vindicates and promotes other types of films: Field of Vision, the production company she co-founded, supports documentary filmmakers from all over the world, especially in underrepresented areas and communities. Or Descendant, Margaret Brown’s film about the quest for justice by the heirs of a group of slaves, which she quotes in conversation. “It’s not only the stories that are important, but also who tells them. We have to fight for all the creative freedom and independence for creators and create precedents so that contracts are better for other filmmakers, and so that stories are really told by the author and not coming from the funder.” Creators should be free to use any ingredients they want, even if these are not to some people’s liking. In fact, it’s better that way. Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers (awarded to The Washington Post for five stories on the NSA) [86] Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (awarded to The Washington Post and The Guardian for the NSA reporting on which she worked, along with Barton Gellman, Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill) [84] [85]