Laura Poitras Collection [DVD]

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Russell also thanked Guadagnino. “He’s been a great friend to me and I love him so dearly,” she said. Perhaps this is the residue of being surveilled. Perhaps it’s an inbred cautiousness—a deep, protective impulse that’s kept her safe and productive through years of working in high-risk environments. Poitras tells me she doesn’t much enjoy being well known. “I don’t love it when someone comes up to me in a coffee shop,” she says, almost sheepishly. She also recognizes that there’s something “ungenerous,” as she puts it, in being a filmmaker who finds her way into the inner sanctum of other people’s lives, but insists on keeping prying outsiders out of her own. Nonetheless, the line holds. Her other films include Risk, Flag Wars, Project X, Death of a Prisoner, The Program, Triple-Chaser, and Terror Contagion. Citizenfour' Director Laura Poitras Sues Over "Kafkaesque" Airport Screening". The Hollywood Reporter. July 13, 2015 . Retrieved July 14, 2015.

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. For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial.

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a b c Maass, Peter (August 18, 2013). "How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets". NYTimes . Retrieved August 18, 2013. There’s a risk or danger with interviews where people have their narrative and they just sort of repeat it,” Poitras said. “I was trying to get away from the script.”

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.Poitras is portrayed by actress Melissa Leo in the biographical drama film Snowden (2016), directed by Oliver Stone, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Snowden. Harvey Weinstein on Edward Snowden's 'Citizenfour': "It Changed My Opinion of Him" ". Hollywood Reporter. October 27, 2014.