Laura Poitras

Known for DirectingBorn 1964-02-02 (age 62)Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Laura Poitras is an Academy Award-winning American documentary film director and producer residing in Berlin. Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden. while My Country, My Country received a nomination in the same category in 2007. She won the 2013 George Polk Award for "national security reporting" related to the NSA disclosures. The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Barton Gellmancontributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.Read more

Movies & web series

How to Have an American Baby

Dancing with Le Pen

Relatively Free

The Program

The Moderators

Duterte's Hell

In the Absence

Citizenfour

Evaporating Borders

Relative

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

The Oath

Shooting the Mafia

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Cover-Up

Crime + Punishment

Terror Contagion

Nuuca

Meeting Snowden

My Country, My Country

The Panama Papers

Trump's Lobby

Conditioned Response

POV

Risk

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

Our New President

Strong Island

Lasting Marks

A Night at the Garden

Project X

The Daily Show

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

The Proposal

Capturing Reality

Concussion Protocol

XY Chelsea

Ghosts of Sugar Land

Keep the Lights On

The Earth is Humming

Speaking Is Difficult

German Film Award

Libre

Our New President

Gavin Grimm vs.

O'Say Can You See 1

Flag Wars

Easter Snap