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Laura Poitras (b. 1964)

Birthplace:
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Born:
February 2, 1964

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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Film Production

Camera Operator:
2022  All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Cinematography:
2003  Flag Wars
2013  PRISM: Whistleblower
2022  All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Director:
1989  Renga
2003  Flag Wars
2006  My Country, My Country
2010  The Oath
2011  O'Say Can You See 1
2011  O'Say Can You See 2
2012  The Program
2013  Death of a Prisoner
2013  PRISM: Whistleblower
2014  Citizenfour
2016  Project X
2017  Risk
2019  Triple-Chaser
2021  Deathtrap on the East River
2021  Terror Contagion
2021  The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2022  All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Director of Photography:
1989  Renga
2003  Flag Wars
2006  My Country, My Country
2010  The Oath
2011  O'Say Can You See 1
2011  O'Say Can You See 2
2012  The Program
2013  Death of a Prisoner
2013  PRISM: Whistleblower
2014  Citizenfour
2016  Project X
2017  Risk
2019  Triple-Chaser
2021  Deathtrap on the East River
2021  Terror Contagion
2021  The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2022  All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Editor:
1989  Renga
2003  Flag Wars
2006  My Country, My Country
2010  The Oath
2011  O'Say Can You See 1
2011  O'Say Can You See 2
2012  The Program
2013  Death of a Prisoner
2013  PRISM: Whistleblower
2014  Citizenfour
2016  Project X
2017  Risk
2019  Triple-Chaser
2021  Deathtrap on the East River
2021  Terror Contagion
2021  The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2022  All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Executive Producer:
1989  Renga
2003  Flag Wars
2006  My Country, My Country
2010  The Oath
2011  O'Say Can You See 1
2011  O'Say Can You See 2
2012  The Program
2013  Death of a Prisoner
2013  PRISM: Whistleblower
2014  Citizenfour
2016  Concerned Student 1950
2016  Like
2016  Project X
2016  Relatively Free
2016  Speaking Is Difficult
2016  The Journey
2017  A Night at the Garden
2017  American Carnage
2017  Conditioned Response
2017  Duterte's Hell
2017  Gavin Grimm vs.
2017  Graven Image
2017  National Disintegrations
2017  Our New President
2017  Personal Truth
2017  Picket Line
2017  Risk
2017  Strong Island
2017  The Moderators
2017  Trump's Lobby
2018  Adversary
2018  Crime + Punishment
2018  Crooked Lines
2018  Dancing with Le Pen
2018  Discreet Airlift
2018  Hale County This Morning, This Evening
2018  In the Absence
2018  Lasting Marks
2018  Nuuca
2018  Our New President
2018  The Earth is Humming
2018  The Panama Papers
2019  Cablestreet
2019  Days of Black and Yellow
2019  Easter Snap
2019  Ghosts of Sugar Land
2019  Libre
2019  Scenes from a Dry City
2019  Shooting the Mafia
2019  The Proposal
2019  The Trial
2019  Triple-Chaser
2019  XY Chelsea
2020  Landfall
2021  Deathtrap on the East River
2021  Terror Contagion
2021  The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2022  All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2023  5 Seasons of Revolution
2023  How to Have an American Baby
????  The Rashomon Effect

Producer:
1989  Renga
2003  Flag Wars
2006  My Country, My Country
2010  The Oath
2011  O'Say Can You See 1
2011  O'Say Can You See 2
2012  The Program
2013  Death of a Prisoner
2013  PRISM: Whistleblower
2014  Citizenfour
2016  Concerned Student 1950
2016  Like
2016  Project X
2016  Relatively Free
2016  Speaking Is Difficult
2016  The Journey
2016  The Vote
2017  A Night at the Garden
2017  American Carnage
2017  Clowns
2017  Conditioned Response
2017  Duterte's Hell
2017  Gavin Grimm vs.
2017  Graven Image
2017  National Disintegrations
2017  Our New President
2017  Personal Truth
2017  Picket Line
2017  Risk
2017  Strong Island
2017  The Moderators
2017  Trump's Lobby
2018  Adversary
2018  Concussion Protocol
2018  Crime + Punishment
2018  Crooked Lines
2018  Dancing with Le Pen
2018  Discreet Airlift
2018  Hale County This Morning, This Evening
2018  In the Absence
2018  Lasting Marks
2018  Nuuca
2018  Our New President
2018  The Earth is Humming
2018  The Panama Papers
2019  Cablestreet
2019  Days of Black and Yellow
2019  Easter Snap
2019  Ghosts of Sugar Land
2019  Libre
2019  Scenes from a Dry City
2019  Shooting the Mafia
2019  The Proposal
2019  The Trial
2019  Triple-Chaser
2019  XY Chelsea
2020  Landfall
2021  Deathtrap on the East River
2021  Terror Contagion
2021  The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2022  All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022  Relative
2023  5 Seasons of Revolution
2023  How to Have an American Baby
????  The Rashomon Effect

Sound Recordist:
1989  Renga
2003  Flag Wars
2006  My Country, My Country
2010  The Oath
2011  O'Say Can You See 1
2011  O'Say Can You See 2
2012  The Program
2013  Death of a Prisoner
2013  PRISM: Whistleblower
2014  Citizenfour
2016  Concerned Student 1950
2016  Like
2016  Project X
2016  Relatively Free
2016  Speaking Is Difficult
2016  The Journey
2016  The Vote
2017  A Night at the Garden
2017  American Carnage
2017  Clowns
2017  Conditioned Response
2017  Duterte's Hell
2017  Gavin Grimm vs.
2017  Graven Image
2017  National Disintegrations
2017  Our New President
2017  Personal Truth
2017  Picket Line
2017  Risk
2017  Strong Island
2017  The Moderators
2017  Trump's Lobby
2018  Adversary
2018  Concussion Protocol
2018  Crime + Punishment
2018  Crooked Lines
2018  Dancing with Le Pen
2018  Discreet Airlift
2018  Hale County This Morning, This Evening
2018  In the Absence
2018  Lasting Marks
2018  Nuuca
2018  Our New President
2018  The Earth is Humming
2018  The Panama Papers
2019  Cablestreet
2019  Days of Black and Yellow
2019  Easter Snap
2019  Ghosts of Sugar Land
2019  Libre
2019  Scenes from a Dry City
2019  Shooting the Mafia
2019  The Proposal
2019  The Trial
2019  Triple-Chaser
2019  XY Chelsea
2020  Landfall
2021  Deathtrap on the East River
2021  Terror Contagion
2021  The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2022  All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022  Relative
2023  5 Seasons of Revolution
2023  How to Have an American Baby
????  The Rashomon Effect

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Director:
1988  POV

Director of Photography:
1988  POV

Producer:
1988  POV

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