Laura Poitras

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1964-02-02 (60 years old)

Place of Birth Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Laura Poitras

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.

Known For

Director

2021
Terror Contagion

as Director

2019
Triple-Chaser

as Director

2017
Risk

as Director

2016
Project X

as Director

2014
Citizenfour

as Director

2013
2013
2012
The Program

as Director

2011
2011
2010
The Oath

as Director

2006
2003
Flag Wars

as Director

1989
Renga

as Director

1988
POV

as Director

Producer

The Rashomon Effect

as Executive Producer

2023
How to Have an American Baby

as Executive Producer

2023
5 Seasons of Revolution

as Executive Producer

2022
Relative

as Producer

2020
Landfall

as Executive Producer

2019
XY Chelsea

as Executive Producer

2019
The Proposal

as Executive Producer

2019
Libre

as Executive Producer

2019
The Trial

as Executive Producer

2019
Ghosts of Sugar Land

as Executive Producer

2019
Easter Snap

as Executive Producer

2019
Scenes from a Dry City

as Executive Producer

2019
Cablestreet

as Executive Producer

2019
Days of Black and Yellow

as Executive Producer

2019
Shooting the Mafia

as Executive Producer

2018
Lasting Marks

as Executive Producer

2018
Discreet Airlift

as Executive Producer

2018
2018
Crime + Punishment

as Executive Producer

2018
2018
The Panama Papers

as Executive Producer

2018
The Earth is Humming

as Executive Producer

2018
Adversary

as Executive Producer

2018
Nuuca

as Executive Producer

2018
Our New President

as Executive Producer

2018
Crooked Lines

as Executive Producer

2018
Dancing with Le Pen

as Executive Producer

2018
In the Absence

as Executive Producer

2017
National Disintegrations

as Executive Producer

2017
Strong Island

as Executive Producer

2017
Risk

as Producer

2017
The Moderators

as Executive Producer

2017
A Night at the Garden

as Executive Producer

2017
Graven Image

as Executive Producer

2017
Trump's Lobby

as Executive Producer

2017
Personal Truth

as Executive Producer

2017
Clowns

as Producer

2017
Our New President

as Executive Producer

2017
Duterte's Hell

as Executive Producer

2017
Conditioned Response

as Executive Producer

2017
Gavin Grimm vs.

as Executive Producer

2017
American Carnage

as Executive Producer

2017
Picket Line

as Executive Producer

2016
Speaking Is Difficult

as Executive Producer

2016
Concerned Student 1950

as Executive Producer

2016
The Journey

as Executive Producer

2016
The Vote

as Producer

2016
Relatively Free

as Executive Producer

2016
Like

as Executive Producer

2014
Citizenfour

as Producer

2011
2011
2010
The Oath

as Producer

2006
2003
Flag Wars

as Producer

1988
POV

as Producer

Camera

2022
2021
The Year of the Everlasting Storm

as Director of Photography

2017
Risk

as Director of Photography

2013
Death of a Prisoner

as Director of Photography

2012
The Program

as Director of Photography

2011
O'Say Can You See 1

as Director of Photography

2010
The Oath

as Director of Photography

2006
My Country, My Country

as Director of Photography

1988
POV

as Director of Photography

Editor

2017
Risk

as Editor

2013
2013
2012
The Program

as Editor

2011
2011

Actor

2017
Risk

as Self (voice)

2017
Meeting Snowden

as Self - Journalist (archive footage)

2016
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

as Self, co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)

2014
Citizenfour

as Self

2008
1996

Crew

2013
PRISM: Whistleblower

as Cinematography

2003
Flag Wars

as Cinematography

Sound

2017
Risk

as Sound Recordist

2003
Flag Wars

as Sound Recordist