Laura Poitras

Assange would like to be seen as a figure on the world stage with equal stature to those he leaks and tweets about – footage in Laura Poitras's documentary on Assange, Risk, showed him insisting he speak with Clinton directly when she was secretary of state, to discuss the forthcoming cable leaks.

... Customs Enforcement (ICE) “uses backend Facebook data to locate and track suspects, according to a string of emails and documents obtained by The Intercept through a public records request.” The Intercept is a news site that was created by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill in 2013.

Now in its forty-seventh year, ND/NF has played home early films from such heavy hitters as Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Chantal Akerman, Pedro Almodovar, Richard Linklater, Darren Aronofsky, Christopher Nolan, Laura Poitras, Andrea Arnold, Ben Wheatley and that is just the tip of the talent it has ...

In conversation events will spotlight cast and crew reunions for Scarface and Schindler's List, while Lesli Linka Glatter, Jamie Foxx, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Alexander Payne, Spike Lee, Laura Poitras, Nancy Meyers, and John Legend are also set to speak live at the 2018 edition. The 2018 Tribeca ...

The sources used for this article were disclosed to The Intercept, a publication dedicated to 'adversarial journalism' founded by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill following Edward Snowden's revelations of mass reconnaissance in 2013. The NSA managed this by creating a system for ...

Also returning to the festival this year is the Tribeca Talks program, which is scheduled to include appearances by Alexander Payne, Lesli Linka Glatter, Jason Reitman, Laura Poitras, and Nancy Meyers as part of the directors section, while Bradley Cooper, Alec Baldwin, Spike Lee, John Legend, Edward ...

Most recently, he produced Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras's Risk (2016). In his first collaboration with Poitras, he studio managed her solo exhibition Astro Noise at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the accompanying book Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living ...

Last September, I wrote about Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, Jessica Bruder's important, fascinating book-length investigation into the Americans who live on the road out of economic necessity, including the Camperforce, a precariat army of retirees who saved carefully all their ...

The government recently revealed for the first time that federal agents maintained an open investigation of our client, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, for six years despite never finding any evidence that she committed a crime or was a threat to national security. Coming up ...

Just now released on Showtime, Laura Poitras's Risk, which found its way to theaters in May via upstart distributor Neon, is in a vastly different form than when it premiered last year in Cannes. The documentary traces a thread running counter to the moral certitude heard from our politicians, mostly on the ...

Laura Poitras wants to make one thing absolutely clear. She still admires Julian Assange despite everything that has happened. But, it soon .... WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Laura Poitras's documentary film Risk . Photograph: Praxis Films. Assange, born in Australia and a computer programmer by ...

The American Film Institute's AFI Docs festival will pay tribute to “Citizenfour” director Laura Poitras as the festival's Charles Guggenheim Symposium honoree. The award will be presented at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on June 16 and will include an in-depth conversation with Poitras along with ...