Laura Poitras

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1964-02-02 (61 years old)

Place of Birth

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Laura Poitras

Biography

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...

Acting

2014

2017

Risk

as Self (voice)

2016

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

as Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)

2017

Meeting Snowden

as Self - Journalist (archive footage)

Production

2022

Relative

as Producer

2010

The Oath

as Director

2020

Landfall

as Executive Producer

2021

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

as Director of Photography

2011

O'Say Can You See 1

as Director of Photography

2011

2011

2011

2011

2011

2014

Citizenfour

as Director

2018

Lasting Marks

as Executive Producer

2006

2014

Citizenfour

as Producer

2021

Terror Contagion

as Director

2017

National Disintegrations

as Executive Producer

2022

2013

2013

PRISM: Whistleblower

as Cinematography

2013

2012

The Program

as Editor

2013

2012

The Program

as Director

2016

Speaking Is Difficult

as Executive Producer

2017

Risk

as Director

2012

The Program

as Director of Photography

2016

Project X

as Director

2017

Strong Island

as Executive Producer

2023

How to Have an American Baby

as Executive Producer

2010

The Oath

as Producer

2016

Concerned Student 1950

as Executive Producer

2017

Risk

as Editor

2017

Risk

as Director of Photography

2017

Risk

as Sound Recordist

2017

Risk

as Producer

2003

Flag Wars

as Director

2023

5 Seasons of Revolution

as Executive Producer

2017

The Moderators

as Executive Producer

2011

2003

Flag Wars

as Sound Recordist

2003

Flag Wars

as Producer

2003

Flag Wars

as Cinematography

2017

A Night at the Garden

as Executive Producer

2017

Graven Image

as Executive Producer

2018

Discreet Airlift

as Executive Producer

2016

The Journey

as Executive Producer

2019

XY Chelsea

as Executive Producer

2019

Triple-Chaser

as Director

2017

Trump's Lobby

as Executive Producer

2019

The Proposal

as Executive Producer

2018

Crime + Punishment

as Executive Producer

2006

2018

2017

Personal Truth

as Executive Producer

2016

The Vote

as Producer

2017

Clowns

as Producer

2018

The Panama Papers

as Executive Producer

2018

The Earth is Humming

as Executive Producer

2018

Adversary

as Executive Producer

2018

Nuuca

as Executive Producer

2016

Relatively Free

as Executive Producer

2018

Our New President

as Executive Producer

2017

Our New President

as Executive Producer

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The Rashomon Effect

as Executive Producer

2019

Libre

as Executive Producer

2019

The Trial

as Executive Producer

2010

The Oath

as Director of Photography

2017

Duterte's Hell

as Executive Producer

2018

Crooked Lines

as Executive Producer

2017

Conditioned Response

as Executive Producer

2019

Ghosts of Sugar Land

as Executive Producer

2019

Cablestreet

as Executive Producer

2019

Easter Snap

as Executive Producer

2018

In the Absence

as Executive Producer

2018

Dancing with Le Pen

as Executive Producer

2017

American Carnage

as Executive Producer

2017

Gavin Grimm vs.

as Executive Producer

2019

Scenes from a Dry City

as Executive Producer

2019

Days of Black and Yellow

as Executive Producer

2017

Picket Line

as Executive Producer

2013

Death of a Prisoner

as Director of Photography

2006

My Country, My Country

as Director of Photography

1989

Renga

as Director

2016

Like

as Executive Producer

2019

Shooting the Mafia

as Executive Producer

2018

Crime + Punishment

as Executive Producer

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