Laura Poitras
Directing · Born 1964-02-02 · age 62 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Titles
Citizenfour
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Strong Island
Risk
The Panama Papers
A Night at the Garden
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Ghosts of Sugar Land
In the Absence
Cover-Up
The Oath
Project X
Shooting the Mafia
My Country, My Country
XY Chelsea
Crime + Punishment
Our New President
Point of View
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Flag Wars
Like
Evaporating Borders
Lasting Marks
The Moderators
Trump's Lobby
Nuuca
Our New President
Conditioned Response
Relative
Speaking Is Difficult
The Earth is Humming
Easter Snap
O'Say Can You See 1
Terror Contagion
The Program
Death of a Prisoner
How to Have an American Baby
The Proposal
Concussion Protocol
Relatively Free
Libre
Duterte's Hell
Gavin Grimm vs.
Dancing with Le Pen
Landfall
O'Say Can You See 2
National Disintegrations
PRISM: Whistleblower
Deathtrap on the East River
Concerned Student 1950
5 Seasons of Revolution
Graven Image
Discreet Airlift
The Journey
Triple-Chaser
The Vote
Clowns
Personal Truth
Adversary
The Trial