Laura Poitras will receive the Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence at the Visionaries Tribute on Nov. 14 By Tatiana Siegel Laura Poitras - P 2013 DOC NYC, America’s largest ...

No documentary in history has ever scored a best picture nomination at the Oscars. Not “Hoop Dreams.” Not “The War Room.” Not “Harlan County, U.S.A.” All the classics of the genre failed to make the ...

Backstage producer Mathilde Bonnefoy said “We focused on the person Snowden. We tried with our film to show him, to give him a voice. His motives were pure. He’s a young man who decided to end his ...

Citizenfour is a simplistic tale of Snowden and white hats and black hats, where subtlety and context play little roles and the existence of smoke always indicates fire. About halfway through Laura ...

The same Kansas man who filed suit against Edward Snowden and the doc's makers also contacted the Academy, arguing that a prior airing of some of its footage violated three Academy rules By Scott ...

Director Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour boasts an hour or so of tense, intimate, world-shaking footage you might not quite believe you’re watching. Poitras shows us history as it happens, scenes of such ...

The camera pulls into focus; an audible wave of laughter ripples through the audience. In front of the camera is Edward Snowden, the man behind last year's NSA leaks. The reason for the laughter? The ...