Laura Poitras

Directing·Feb 2, 1964·Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
Cover-Up2025 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed2022 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Relative2022 · Producer	Producer
The Year of the Everlasting Storm2021 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer	Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Terror Contagion2021 · Director	Director
Deathtrap on the East River2021 · Director	Director
Triple-Chaser2019 · Director	Director
Concussion Protocol2018 · Producer	Producer
Risk2017 · Self (voice), Director, Producer, Director of Photography	Self (voice), Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Meeting Snowden2017 · Self - Journalist (archive footage)	Self - Journalist (archive footage)
Clowns2017 · Producer	Producer
Project X2016 · Director	Director
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone2016 · Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)	Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
The Vote2016 · Producer	Producer
Citizenfour2014 · Self, Director, Producer	Self, Director, Producer
PRISM: Whistleblower2013 · Director	Director
Death of a Prisoner2013 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
The Program2012 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
O'Say Can You See 12011 · Producer, Director of Photography, Director	Producer, Director of Photography, Director
O'Say Can You See 22011 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Oath2010 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography	Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Capturing Reality2008 · Self	Self
My Country, My Country2006 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography	Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Flag Wars2003 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Renga1989 · Director	Director
They're HereProducer	Producer