Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras is an Oscar, Pulitzer Prize, and Golden Lion winning filmmaker and journalist.
Her film Cover-Up (2025), was nominated for BAFTA, DGA and Emmy awards. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Her film CITIZENFOUR (2014) won an Academy Award for Best Documentary, along with awards from DGA, BAFTA, and Independent Spirit Award. Laura received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for her reporting on the National Security Agency’s global mass surveillance programs. Her film about the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq, My Country, My Country (2005), was nominated for an Academy Award. Following the release of the film, the U.S. government placed her on a terrorist watchlist. In 2015 she successfully sued the U.S. government to obtain her FBI files. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and is a founding board member of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. She is a co-founder of Field of Vision and The Intercept.
talk :A Conversation
Come join us for an open conversation with Laura Poitras about her work and the documentary format.
