Laura Poitras will receive the Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence at the Visionaries Tribute on Nov. 14 By Tatiana Siegel Laura Poitras - P 2013 DOC NYC, America’s largest ...

No documentary in history has ever scored a best picture nomination at the Oscars. Not “Hoop Dreams.” Not “The War Room.” Not “Harlan County, U.S.A.” All the classics of the genre failed to make the ...

"And the Oscar goes to ... Citizenfour." With those words, filmmaker Laura Poitras took the stage Sunday at the Academy Awards, where her portrait of whistleblower Edward Snowden and the sweeping mass ...

Be afraid. Be very afraid. This in essence is the message of “Citizenfour,” Laura Poitras’ highly anticipated documentary on Edward Snowden’s decision to expose the National Security Agency’s ravenous ...

In the last 16 months, the saga of Edward Snowden has played out so publicly that you might easily think we’d seen all there is to see — but you’d be wrong. While Greenwald has pieced out details from ...

In a year with few front-runners, Laura Poitras‘s “Citizenfour” seems destined to win a slew of critics awards. The Edward Snowden documentary has been a media darling since its New York Film Fest ...

The camera pulls into focus; an audible wave of laughter ripples through the audience. In front of the camera is Edward Snowden, the man behind last year's NSA leaks. The reason for the laughter? The ...

Can you remember the last time a documentary actually took your breath away? I can. It happened on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, in a theater at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The film ...

This piece first appeared in The Advocate--the law school's student-run newspaper. When The Guardian first leaked the story about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs, I was sitting in ...