Laura Poitras Collection [DVD]

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The lawyers also scrutinize the way in which Poitras changed the film after its premiere in 2016 as well as other critical aspects.

Poitras was one of the journalists who worked with Snowden to publicize the information along with journalist Glenn Greenwald. In 2012, Poitras took an active part in the three-month exposition of Whitney Biennial exhibition of contemporary American art.

Goldin, a well known photographer whose work often documented the LGBT subcultures and the HIV/AIDS crisis, founded the advocacy group P. Poitras reported that on October 29, 2012 the United States Supreme Court would hear arguments regarding the constitutionality of the amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that were used to authorize the creation of such facilities and justify such actions.

On November 30, 2020, Poitras was fired by First Look Media, the parent company of The Intercept, allegedly in relation to her criticism of The Intercept's handling of the Reality Winner controversy. The hundreds of heavily redacted documents reveal that the FBI conducted physical and digital surveillance of her, sent FBI agents to her film screenings, subpoenaed her private communications, and conducted a classified counterintelligence investigation. Perspective With Laura Poitras' re-cut 'Risk,' a director controversially changes her mind about Julian Assange, Los Angeles Times. It was preliminary work that was to be included in a documentary planned for release as the final part of the trilogy.On August 22, 2012, in a forum of short documentaries produced by independent filmmakers, The New York Times published an "Op-doc" produced by Poitras entitled The Program. The Program implied that a facility being built at Bluffdale, Utah is part of domestic surveillance, intended for storage of massive amounts of data collected from a broad range of communications that could be mined readily for intelligence without warrants. Journalist John] Bruning's book claims that the battalion suspected the doctor of being an insurgent.

In the film, he argues that one of the women in question had potentially alternate motivation because she founded Gothenburg’s largest lesbian nightclub. She filmed, edited, and produced Channel 4's alternative to the Royal Christmas Message by Queen Elizabeth II in 2013, the " Alternative Christmas Message", featuring Edward Snowden.

The film was nominated for an Academy Award, won an Independent Spirit Award, and was named best documentary of the year by New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics. New York Film Festival Selects Laura Poitras Documentary All The Beauty And The Bloodshed As Centerpiece". Her reporting on NSA mass surveillance received the George Polk Award and shared in the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service.