Laura Poitras
Born: 1964-02-02 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known For: Directing
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 2012 MacArthur Fellow, and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Filmography
2023
- How to Have an American Baby ... (Executive Producer)
- 5 Seasons of Revolution ... (Executive Producer)
2022
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed ... (Director)
- Relative ... (Producer)
2021
- Terror Contagion ... (Director)
- The Year of the Everlasting Storm ... (Director)
- Deathtrap on the East River ... (Director)
2020
- Landfall ... (Executive Producer)
2019
- Libre ... (Executive Producer)
- Triple-Chaser ... (Director)
- Cablestreet ... (Executive Producer)
- The Proposal ... (Executive Producer)
- Shooting the Mafia ... (Executive Producer)
- Days of Black and Yellow ... (Executive Producer)
- Ghosts of Sugar Land ... (Executive Producer)
- XY Chelsea ... (Executive Producer)
- Scenes from a Dry City ... (Executive Producer)
- Easter Snap ... (Executive Producer)
- The Trial ... (Executive Producer)
2018
- Lasting Marks ... (Executive Producer)
- Nuuca ... (Executive Producer)
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening ... (Executive Producer)
- In the Absence ... (Executive Producer)
- The Panama Papers ... (Executive Producer)
- Our New President ... (Executive Producer)
- Crooked Lines ... (Executive Producer)
- The Earth is Humming ... (Executive Producer)
- Dancing with Le Pen ... (Executive Producer)
- Crime + Punishment ... (Executive Producer)
- Crime + Punishment ... (Executive Producer)
- Discreet Airlift ... (Executive Producer)
- Concussion Protocol ... (Producer)
- Adversary ... (Executive Producer)
2017
- Strong Island ... (Executive Producer)
- Risk as Self (voice)
- Conditioned Response ... (Executive Producer)
- A Night at the Garden ... (Executive Producer)
- Clowns ... (Producer)
- The Moderators ... (Executive Producer)
- Meeting Snowden as Self - Journalist (archive footage)
- Gavin Grimm vs. ... (Executive Producer)
- Picket Line ... (Executive Producer)
- Graven Image ... (Executive Producer)
- Our New President ... (Executive Producer)
- Duterte's Hell ... (Executive Producer)
- Trump's Lobby ... (Executive Producer)
- Код доступа as Self
- American Carnage ... (Executive Producer)
- Personal Truth ... (Executive Producer)
- National Disintegrations ... (Executive Producer)
2016
- Relatively Free ... (Executive Producer)
- The Journey ... (Executive Producer)
- Project X ... (Director)
- Like ... (Executive Producer)
- The Vote ... (Producer)
- All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone as Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
- Concerned Student 1950 ... (Executive Producer)
- Speaking Is Difficult ... (Executive Producer)
2014
- Citizenfour as Self
2013
- Death of a Prisoner ... (Director)
- PRISM: Whistleblower ... (Director)
2012
- The Program ... (Director)
- Keep the Lights On ... (Thanks)
2011
- O'Say Can You See 1 ... (Producer)
- O'Say Can You See 2 ... (Director)
2010
- The Oath ... (Director)
2008
- Capturing Reality as Self
2006
- My Country, My Country ... (Director)
2003
- Flag Wars ... (Director)
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
1989
- Renga ... (Director)
1988
- POV ... (Director of Photography)
1951
- German Film Award as Self