About the artist
Laura Poitras is an American documentary film director and producer. She is known for her reporting on post-9/11 events such as the US occupation of Iraq, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp and the war on terror. Citizenfour, her film about NSA mass surveillance based on Edward Snowden’s disclosures, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Work
The Program
2012
This documentary profiles William Binney, a veteran of the National Security Agency who late became an influential whistle-blower.
PRISM Whistleblower. Interview with Edward Snowden
2013
This documentary, made by Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, tells the story of whistle-blower Edward Snowden, an NSA contractor who leaked secret documents on mass surveillance programmes.
Glenn Greenwald is an American lawyer, journalist and author who was a columnist for Guardian US from August 2012 to October 2013.