Laura Poitras Collection [DVD]

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Poitras . . . gives emotional resonance to an aspect of foreign policy that can otherwise seem as abstract and remote as drone warfare itself." Laura Poitras takes documentaries into the future with Field of Vision". The Guardian. September 30, 2015. Dorfman, Zach; Naylor, Sean D.; Isikoff, Michael (September 26, 2021). "Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks". Yahoo! News . Retrieved September 26, 2021.

In her article, Poitras cites Santiago Mitre’s Argentina,1985, an Oscar contender for best international film, as an example of the courage and risks of prosecuting someone as powerful as the military junta of the 1970s dictatorship. “A society that does not confront its crimes is condemned to repeat them, and to reward those who committed them.” For this reason, among others, the director insists on going against the grain. It later emerged that, because of Citizenfour, the CIA tried to have Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald labeled as “information brokers” and “agents of a foreign power.” They didn’t manage it, but they tried. “And that was under Obama.” The filmmaker, in fact, recalls that she prepared a Plan B in case she ended up facing charges over the film and she moved to Berlin, where she felt further away from the reach of the US government.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.

The Oath Honored at the Sundance Film Festival". Beyond the Box. October 20, 2001. Archived from the original on November 28, 2010. Perquè vam crear una gran intimitat a les entrevistes. No hi havia ningú més a l’habitació i vaig crear una xarxa de seguretat perquè ningú més les escoltés fins a tenir un muntatge acabat, com si fossin documents secrets, perquè el contingut era profundament personal. I la Nan va confiar en mi perquè respectava el meu treball. Però, així i tot, era un gran risc per a ella obrir-se i confiar-me totes les seves intimitats i el seu treball. Així que vaig mirar de ser molt respectuosa.

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La primera vegada que la vaig entrevistar només vam parlar del que va passar en aquella habitació d’hotel a Berlín. I en el primer muntatge de la pel·lícula només es feia esment a la violència i el maltractament. Però ella va dir: "Hem d’aprofundir més, és més complicat que això". I va voler parlar de la història d’amor i una relació, no només de l’acte de violència. I això diu molt del treball de la Nan. Li agraden les coses complicades, no vol respostes simples. I em sembla un acte de generositat, perquè la Nan podria limitar-se a explicar el que li va fer, però també vol parlar de la seva amabilitat i tendresa. Laura Poitras poses with the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, which she won last September for 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.' Domenico Stinellis (AP) 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. Reality Winner, charged with leaking U.S. secrets to a news outlet, walks into the Federal Courthouse in Augusta, Ga., Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Winner previously pleaded not guilty and has been in custody since her arrest.

Your own work tends to appeal to people with a liberal view of the world. Greenwald seems to have migrated away from that, at least on the surface, when it comes to U.S. politics. It’s been hard to see him showing up on Fox News or fueling arguments that could’ve helped the Trump campaign last year. Krasny, Michael (October 21, 2014). " 'Citizenfour' Tells the Story of NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden". Forum (Podcast). San Francisco: KQED-FM . Retrieved October 21, 2014.

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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. Later that evening, Poitras sits in a low-lit Japanese restaurant in SoHo, sipping a green-tea mojito and mulling over all that’s happened in the last two years. “To be quite honest, I don’t think I’ve taken the time to take a breath,” she says. She seems a bit stunned, like a diver who’s only just surfaced. “In retrospect, a lot of people think, Oh, the Snowden story is a great story that any journalist would want to get ahold of,” she says. “But it didn’t feel that way then. I was seriously scared.” 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.