Laura Poitras
Known For: Directing
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: February 2, 1964 (61 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
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2019
Executive Producer
XY Chelsea
Director
Triple-Chaser
Executive Producer
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
2018
Executive Producer
Lasting Marks
Executive Producer
Discreet Airlift
Executive Producer
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Executive Producer
Crime + Punishment
Producer
Concussion Protocol
Executive 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
2017
Actor Self (voice)
Risk
Actor Self - Journalist (archive footage)
Meeting Snowden
Executive Producer
National Disintegrations
Director
Risk
Executive Producer
Strong Island
Editor
Risk
Producer
Risk
Director of Photography
Risk
Sound Recordist
Risk
Executive Producer
The Moderators
Executive Producer
A Night at the Garden
Executive Producer
Graven Image
Executive Producer
Trump's Lobby
Executive Producer
Personal Truth
Producer
Clowns
Executive 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
2016
Actor Self, co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Executive Producer
Speaking Is Difficult
Director
Project X
Executive Producer
Concerned Student 1950
Executive Producer
The Journey
Producer
The Vote
Executive Producer
Relatively Free
Executive Producer
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