Citizenfour director Laura Poitras has filed a lawsuit against the US federal government in a District of Columbia court for “Kafkaesque harassment” she says she’s endured in airports and border ...

Poitras, who is a journalist as well as a filmmaker, claims that from 2006 to 2012, and especially after Glenn Greenwald published what Snowden had given him about U.S. surveillance tactics and the ...

“CITIZENFOUR,” a new documentary from Laura Poitras about Edward Snowden and surveillance, will have its world premiere at the upcoming New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center ...

With the first two documentaries in her post–9-11 trilogy — My Country, My Country, a portrait of Iraq under American occupation, and The Oath, which focused on two Guantánamo Bay prisoners — Laura ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anonymous Content has signed Oscar and Pulitzer Prize-winning filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras, the director behind ...

Laura Poitras’ 2006 film about life for Iraqis during the Iraq War got her an Academy Award nomination for best documentary — and it also got her a place on a US government watch list. She was marked ...