Directing
Laura Poitras
EN, AR, ES, ZH cinema · 75 credits
Born
2 February 1964 (age 62)
Birthplace
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.
Known for
Filmography
The Rashomon Effect
The Rashomon Effect
Executive Producer
Flood
Executive Producer
They're Here
Editor, Producer, Director
My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile
Executive Producer
Cover-Up
Director, Producer, Editor
How to Have an American Baby
Executive Producer
5 Seasons of Revolution
Executive Producer
Relative
Producer
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Director, Producer, Camera Operator
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Terror Contagion
Director
Landfall
Executive Producer
XY Chelsea
Executive Producer
Triple-Chaser
Director
The Proposal
Executive Producer
Libre
Executive Producer
The Trial
Executive Producer
Ghosts of Sugar Land
Executive Producer
Easter Snap
Executive Producer
Scenes from a Dry City
Executive Producer
Cablestreet
Executive Producer
Days of Black and Yellow
Executive Producer
Shooting the Mafia
Executive Producer
Lasting Marks
Executive Producer
Discreet Airlift
Executive Producer
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Executive Producer
Crime + Punishment
Executive Producer
Concussion Protocol
Producer
The Panama Papers
Executive Producer
The Earth is Humming
Executive Producer
Adversary
Executive Producer
Nuuca
Executive Producer
Our New President
Executive Producer
Crooked Lines
Executive Producer
Dancing with Le Pen
Executive Producer
In the Absence
Executive Producer
Risk
as Self (voice), Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist
Meeting Snowden
as Self - Journalist (archive footage)
National Disintegrations
Executive Producer
Strong Island
Executive Producer
The Moderators
Executive Producer
A Night at the Garden
Executive Producer
Graven Image
Executive Producer
Trump's Lobby
Executive Producer
Personal Truth
Executive Producer
Clowns
Producer
Our New President
Executive Producer
Duterte's Hell
Executive Producer
Conditioned Response
Executive Producer
Gavin Grimm vs.
Executive Producer
American Carnage
Executive Producer
Picket Line
Executive Producer
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
Speaking Is Difficult
2016
Speaking Is Difficult
Executive Producer
Project X
Director
Concerned Student 1950
Executive Producer
The Journey
Executive Producer
The Vote
Producer
Relatively Free
Executive Producer
Like
Executive Producer
The Above
Executive Producer
Citizenfour
as Self, Director, Producer
Evaporating Borders
2014
Evaporating Borders
Executive Producer
PRISM: Whistleblower
Director, Editor, Cinematography
Death of a Prisoner
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
The Program
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
O'Say Can You See 1
Director of Photography, Producer, Editor, Director
O'Say Can You See 2
Director, Producer, Editor
The Oath
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
My Country, My Country
Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
Flag Wars
Director, Cinematography, Producer, Sound Recordist
Renga
Director