Laura Poitras Collection [DVD]

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D'Alessandro, Anthony (August 4, 2022). "New York Film Festival Selects Laura Poitras Documentary All The Beauty And The Bloodshed As Centerpiece". Deadline . Retrieved August 8, 2022. 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. 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.

Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers (awarded to The Washington Post for five stories on the NSA) [86] Filmmaker Laura Poitras' Work Rewarded With a Pulitzer Prize". April 14, 2014 . Retrieved April 17, 2014. Filmmaker Laura Poitras finally learns why she endured airport stops for years". Toronto Star. April 17, 2017 . Retrieved April 18, 2017. That’s when Poitras, with help from the late Participant executive Diane Weyermann, made a deal with Goldin to do a series of audio interviews at her house. “I knew it was going to give me a kind of intimacy that wouldn’t be there if there was a camera and a crew,” said Poitras. “It was just an instinct.” Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden And Laura Poitras Reunite for a Selfie in Moscow". Huffington Post. May 22, 2014 . Retrieved June 6, 2014.One of your missions as a museum is to create a platform for artists who make socially conscious art, who are compelled to deal with social and political issues. . . . Laura was an original, strong and compelling voice in all that." Boadle, Anthony (August 7, 2013). "New U.S. spying revelations coming from Snowden leaks -journalist". Reuters UK . Retrieved August 7, 2013. As artist-reporters, Poitras said she and Goldin share some of the same storytelling DNA (before she won an Oscar for her documentary about Snowden, Poitras was among the journalists whose reporting on the NSA whistleblower won a Pulitzer Prize in 2014).

Her life has changed considerably since making Citizenfour. At times, she has felt scared for her own safety. “Right after the Snowden stuff, I knew I was being followed by intelligence agencies. I felt really nervous about threats from the government, private contractors, intelligence agencies all over the world. There are a lot of bad actors out there. But I have to keep doing the work.” Allowing a known criminal enterprise to continue to operate is the absurd result of a justice system that is rotten to its core. Poitras authored a documentary called Risk, on the life of Julian Assange. According to Variety, the film shows Assange is "willing to put everything on the line, risking imprisonment and worse to publish information he believes the public has a right to know". [66] Poitras is portrayed by actress Melissa Leo in the biographical drama film Snowden (2016), directed by Oliver Stone, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Snowden. Goldin is best known for her pioneering, taboo-busting photography slideshow series “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.” Featuring the artist, her friends and countercultural figures of 1970s and ’80s New York, it’s a masterclass in curation that continues to evolve to this day. A slide goes in, a slide goes out; new images are pushed together, new harmonies and juxtapositions formed. The sequence evolves, and with it, the story she tells.Greenwald, Poitras, Gellman, MacAskill: key in NSA coverage". Phys.org . Retrieved October 22, 2014. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial? a b c Lang, Brent (May 3, 2017). " 'Risk' Director Laura Poitras on Her Explosive Julian Assange Documentary". Variety . Retrieved May 9, 2017.