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    Laura Poitras

    American documentary film director and producer

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  1. Laura Poitras (/ ˈ p ɔɪ t r ə s /; born February 2, 1964) is an American director and producer of documentary films.. Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 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 ...

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    Laura Poitras. Producer: Citizenfour. Laura Poitras was born on 2 February 1964 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is a producer and director, known for Citizenfour (2014), The Oath (2010) and My Country, My Country (2006).

  3. Jan 13, 2023 · Laura Poitras is perhaps best known for investigative films that have laid bare U.S. government surveillance and military tactics in the aftermath of 9/11.

  4. Dec 3, 2022 · NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with director Laura Poitras about her new documentary, "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed," a chronicle of photographer Nan Goldin's activism in the opioid epidemic.

  5. Laura Poitras. Laura Poitras is an Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winning filmmaker and journalist. Her most recent film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, premiered at the 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 ...

  6. Aug 13, 2013 · This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key. For almost two years, Poitras had been working on a documentary about ...

  7. Nov 16, 2022 · The artist Nan Goldin didn’t think she was worthy enough for the director Laura Poitras to make a documentary about her. Poitras had won an Academy Award in 2015 for “Citizenfour,” about ...

  8. Laura Poitras. Producer: Citizenfour. Laura Poitras was born on 2 February 1964 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is a producer and director, known for Citizenfour (2014), The Oath (2010) and My Country, My Country (2006).

  9. Sep 10, 2021 · In 2004, frustrated by the coverage she was seeing in the mainstream media, the filmmaker Laura Poitras traveled to Iraq. She hoped to see for herself how, in the wake of the 2003 invasion ...

  10. Jun 2, 2010 · Laura Poitras' documentary The Oath tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Hamdan, who both worked for Osama bin Laden at one time in their lives.. At bin Laden's urging, Jandal and ...

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