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Citizenfour
''Citizenfour'' is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras, concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal. The film had its US premiere on October 10, 2014, at the New York Film Festival and its UK premiere on October 17, 2014, at the BFI London Film Festival. The film features Snowden and Glenn Greenwald, and was co-produced by Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, and Dirk Wilutzky, with Steven Soderbergh and others serving as executive producers. ''Citizenfour'' received critical acclaim upon release, and was the recipient of numerous accolades, including Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Feature at the 87th Academy Awards. This film is the third part to a 9/11 trilogy following ''My Country, My Country'' (2006) and ''The Oath (2010 film), The Oath'' (2010). Synopsis In January 2013, Laura Poitras, an American documentary film director/producer who had been working for several years on a film about monitoring programs in the United States that ...
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Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras (; born February 2, 1964) is an American director and producer of documentary films. Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 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 Gellman contributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Washington Post''. In 2022, her documentary film, '' All the Beauty and the Bloodshed'', which explores the career of Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler family, was awarded the Golden Lion, making it the second documentary to win the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. The film then won a Peabody Award at the 84th ceremony in 2024 for "capturing the zeal ...
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Mathilde Bonnefoy
Mathilde Bonnefoy (born 11 March 1972) is a French film editor and director who was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for the editing of the film '' Run Lola Run'' (1998) and who won the award for editing the documentary ''Citizenfour'' (2014). She and her husband Dirk Wilutzky additionally served as producers of ''Citizenfour'' with its director Laura Poitras, and the three received the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Bonnefoy was born in Paris, and is the daughter of the French poet Yves Bonnefoy and Lucy Vines, an American; she has dual citizenship in France and the United States. From 1990 to 1991 she studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, but she abandoned her studies to move to Berlin. By 1995 she was working as an assistant editor, and in 1997 she was credited as the " Avid assistant" for the German film '' Das Leben ist eine Baustelle'' (directed by Wolfgang Becker). ''Das Leben ist eine Baustelle'' was one of the first films produced by the film compan ...
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Dirk Wilutzky
Dirk Wilutzky (born 1965 in Herleshausen, West Germany) is a German film producer and director. He won the shared Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the 2014 documentary ''Citizenfour'' at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. He is married to film editor Mathilde Bonnefoy, with whom he produced ''Citizenfour''. Filmography (selected) Director * 2005: The Fleetingness * 2007: Pitching in Hollywood * 2011: Was tun? Producer * 2009: Germany 09: 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation * 2010: Soul Boy * 2011: Und wir sind nicht die Einzigen * 2014: Citizenfour Production management * 1998: Wolffs Revier (TV series) * 1998: Der Clown (TV series) * 2002: Bowling for Columbine ''Bowling for Columbine'' is a 2002 documentary film written, produced, directed, and narrated by Michael Moore. The documentary film explores what Moore suggests are the primary causes for the Columbine High School massacre in 1999 and other a ... * 2003: The Soul of a Man R ...
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Jacob Appelbaum
Jacob Appelbaum (born April 1, 1983) is an American independent journalist, computer security researcher, artist, Hacking (innovation), hacker and teacher. Appelbaum, who earned his PhD from the Eindhoven University of Technology, first became notable for his work as a core member of the Tor (anonymity network), Tor Project, a free software network designed to provide online Anonymizer, anonymity. But it was Appelbaum's work with WikiLeaks and his journalism at ''Der Spiegel'' based on the NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden that made him famous. His fame increased by his standing-in for Julian Assange at computer security and hacker forums when Assange could no longer travel to the United States. Under the pseudonym "ioerror", Appelbaum was an active member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective from 2008 to 2016. He was the co-founder of the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge with Mitch Altman. He worked for Kink.com and Greenpeace and volunteered for the Ruckus Socie ...
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Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson (born 1965) is an American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. She is mostly known for her camera work on several well-known feature-length documentaries such as ''Citizenfour'' and '' The Oath''. In 2016, she released '' Cameraperson'', a film which consists of various pieces of footage from her decades of work all over the world as a documentary cinematographer. Directed by Johnson herself, ''Cameraperson'' went on to be praised for its handling of themes about documentary ethics interwoven with Johnson's personal reflection on her experiences. Movies that Johnson has either filmed or directed have received numerous nominations and awards over the years, and she is now a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Early life Kirsten Johnson was born in 1965. Her father is C. Richard Johnson, a psychiatrist. Johnson was raised in Seattle and Wyoming in a Seventh-day Adventist family who placed restrictions on her access to film and telev ...
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Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is a former National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence contractor and whistleblower who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs. Born in 1983 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, he attended a community college and later enrolled at a masters programme of the University of Liverpool without finishing it. In 2005 he worked for the University of Maryland, in 2006 he started working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and then switched to Dell in 2009 where he was managing computer systems of the NSA. In 2013, he worked two months at Booz Allen Hamilton with the purpose of gathering more NSA documents. In May 2013, Snowden flew to Hong Kong and in early June he revealed thousands of classified NSA documents to journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, and Ewen MacAskill. Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present), His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance ...
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Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American journalist, author, and former lawyer. In 1996, Greenwald founded a law firm concentrating on First Amendment to the United States Constitution, First Amendment litigation. He began blogging on national security issues in October 2005, when he was becoming increasingly concerned with what he viewed as attacks on civil liberties by the Presidency of George W. Bush, George W. Bush administration in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. He became a vocal critic of the Iraq War and has maintained a critical position of American foreign policy. Greenwald started contributing to ''Salon.com, Salon'' in 2007, and to ''The Guardian'' in 2012. In June 2013, while at ''The Guardian'', he began publishing a series of reports detailing previously unknown information about American and British global surveillance programs based on classified documents provided by Edward Snowden. His work contributed to ''The Guardian''s 2014 Pul ...
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87th Academy Awards
The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2014 and took place on February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC, produced by Neil Meron and Craig Zadan and directed by Hamish Hamilton. Actor Neil Patrick Harris hosted the ceremony for the first time. In related events, the Academy held its 6th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 8, 2014. On February 7, 2015, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Margot Robbie and Miles Teller. '' Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)'' won ...
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My Country, My Country
''My Country, My Country'' is a 2006 documentary film about Iraq under U.S. occupation by the filmmaker Laura Poitras. Film Laura Poitras spent over eight months working on her own and for some time following a U.S. Army Civil Affairs team during the elections in Iraq filming the documentary. The film shows life in Iraq for average Iraqis under U.S. occupation. Poitras focuses primarily on Dr. Riyadh al-Adhadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six and Sunni political candidate. The film was well received by critics and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film had a limited U.S. theatrical release. The PBS program '' P.O.V.'' broadcast the film in October 2006. Poitras said that "Since completing ''My Country, My Country'', I've been placed on the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) watch list" and has been notified by airport security "that my 'threat rating' was the highest the Department of Homeland Security assigns". The film is one ...
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2014 New York Film Festival
The 52nd New York Film Festival was held September 26 – October 12, 2014. The lineup consisted of seven sections: * Main Slate (31 films and two shorts programs) * Spotlight on Documentary (15 films) * Projections (13 programs) * Special Events (6 films) * Revivals (9 films) * Joseph L. Mankiewicz Retrospective (21 films) * Convergence (transmedia presentations and talks) The Festival also included various interviews and panels. Following the departure of programmer Mark McElhatten, the experimental section was renamed from "Views from the Avant-Garde" to "Projections". The primary selection committee included Kent Jones (chair), Dennis Lim, Marian Masone, Gavin Smith, and Amy Taubin. Projections was programmed by Dennis Lim, Aily Nash, and Gavin Smith. Convergence was curated by Matt Bolish. Sections Main Slate Feature-length Source: Shorts Source: Spotlight on Documentary Source: Projections Source: Special Events Source: Revivals Source: R ...
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The Oath (2010 Film)
''The Oath'' is a 2010 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras. It tells the cross-cut tale of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose meeting launched them on juxtaposed paths to al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, the September 11 attacks, US military tribunals and the U.S. Supreme Court. The film is the second of a trilogy, with the first being '' My Country, My Country'' (2006), documenting the lives of Iraqi citizens during the U.S. occupation of Iraq. The third, ''Citizenfour'' (2014), focuses on the NSA's domestic surveillance programs. ''The Oath'' is distributed both theatrically and non-theatrically in the US by New York–based Zeitgeist Films. Overview The film revolves around Abu Jandal, a taxi driver in San'a, Yemen who had worked as a bodyguard to Osama bin Laden for four years, and Salim Ahmed Hamdan. The latter worked for bin Laden as his driver in Afghanistan, and was captured in 2001 during the US invasion. He was detained as an enemy combatant and t ...
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