Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras is a filmmaker and journalist. Her film CITIZENFOUR won an Oscar for best documentary. Her reporting on NSA mass surveillance and Edward Snowden also received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The first film of her post-11 trilogy, My Country, My Country, documented the U.S. occupation of Iraq, and second film, The Oath, focused on Guantánamo Bay Prison and Al Qaeda. Her film Risk documents WikiLeaks and journalist Julian Assange. She is the recipient of many awards, including a MacArthur fellowship, Peabody award, Directors Guild of America, and BAFTA. She is the co-founder of Field of Vision and The Intercept. In 2015, she filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government to obtain information about why she was placed on a terrorist watchlist.