In January 2013, film-maker Laura Poitras received an encrypted e-mail from a stranger who called himself Citizen Four. In it, he offered her inside information about illegal wiretapping practices of ...

Whatever you may feel about National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras’ cinema verite exercise “Citizenfour” is an impressive piece of paranoid, political filmmaking.

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 ...

The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) has grown quite a bit in the past decade with regard to its size and variety of documentary films. This year the festival will showcase ...

Only a few weeks after its existence was announced to the world, Laura Poitras‘ “CITIZENFOUR” made its debut at the New York Film Festival on Friday night to thunderous applause and widespread ...

When journalist Laura Poitras is contacted anonymously via email, she has no inkling of an earth-shattering revelation. The person calling himself Citizenfour turns out, at a meeting in Hong Kong, to ...

The Edward Snowden documentary premiered at the New York Film Festival By Todd McCarthy Citizenfour Still - H 2014 As if in a dream that any political documentary filmmaker would not imagine could ...

As a filmmaker, Laura Poitras is not a grandstander. These projects and their consequences have become personal, and the lines between filmmaker and participant have blurred: She's said that she was ...

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Melissa Block speaks with documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras about her new film, Citizenfour that charts her meeting with Edward Snowden and his subsequent revelations about government surveillance.

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.