Laura Poitras

Quick Facts

Full Name	Laura Poitras
Date Of Birth	Feb 2, 1964(1964-02-02)
Age	60
Birthplace	Boston
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Aquarius

Laura Poitras Biography

Laura Poitras is one of the most popular and richest Film Producer who was born on February 2, 1964 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Laura Poitras (/'”p oI t the s born on February 2nd 1964) is an American producer and director documentaries. Her home is within New York City.

The film she directed in 2006 My Country, My Country which focused on the lives of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation, was nominated for an Academy Award. Her film from 2010 The Oath, about two Yemeni men who are caught up in the U.S. War on Terror, won the Excellence in Cinematography Award for U.S. documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. Two films form part of three films. The third installment Citizenfour in 2014 explains ways in which this War on Terror increasingly focuses on Americans through surveillance, secret actions, and attacks on whistleblowers.

In 2012 Poitras took an active part in the three-month exposition of Whitney Biennial exhibition of contemporary American art.

The Program implied that a facility being built at Bluffdale, Utah is part of domestic surveillance, intended for storage of massive amounts of data collected from a broad range of communications that could be mined readily for intelligence without warrants. Poitras reported that on October 29, 2012 the United States Supreme Court would hear arguments regarding the constitutionality of the amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that were used to authorize the creation of such facilities and justify such actions.

Poitras has been under being monitored from Poitras has been monitored by the U.S. Government, which she believes is due to an electronic transfer she made during 2006, to Riyadh al Adhadh who is who is an Iraqi physician and Sunni presidential candidate that was focus of her documentary in 2006 My Country, My Country. After having completed My Country, My Country, Poitras claims, “I’ve been placed on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) watch list” and been informed by security at airports “that my ‘threat rating’ was the highest the Department of Homeland Security assigns”. Poitras claims that her work has been hindered because of constant harassment from border agents at the more than thirty border crossings in or out of United States. She was detained for hours and interrogated . agents have taken her cell phone, computer as well as notes for reporters, and they have not returned them for several some time. At one point, she was threatened with denial of admission back to America. United States. In response to an Glenn Greenwald article about this group of film directors began petitions to protest the actions of the government against her. In April 2012, Poitras was interviewed on the surveillance of Democracy Now! and called elected officials”shameful” for their actions “shameful”.

Laura Poitras Net Worth

Laura Poitras is one of the richest Film Producer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Laura Poitras 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As a child, Laura planned to become an chef. She spent many years working as chef at L’Espalier which is an upscale French restaurant that was located near the Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. After graduating from Sudbury Valley Academy, in which the school had no class, there weren’t any grades and no distinction of students according to age, she relocated into San Francisco and lost interest in becoming an chef. Instead, she attended the San Francisco Art Institute with experimental filmmakers Ernie Gehr and Janis Crystal Lipzin. The year 1992 was the time Poitras relocated into New York to explore the art of filmmaking. In 1996 Poitras graduated at The New School for Public Engagement with an undergraduate degree.

Poitras co-directed the production, edited, and shot the 2003 film, Flag Wars, about the gentrification process within Columbus, Ohio. The film won an award of a Peabody Award, Best Documentary at both the 2003 South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival as well as the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival and also it was awarded the Filmmaker Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The film also kicked off POV’s 2003 seasons. PBS TV show POV. The film was nominated for an 2004 Independent Spirit Award and an 2004 Emmy Award. The other films of the late director include O”Say You See… (2003), Can You see… (2003) as well as Exact Fantasy (1995).

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Laura Poitras is the middle daughter of Patricia “Pat” and James “Jim” Poitras, who in 2007 donated $20 million to found The Poitras Center for Affective Disorders Research at McGovern Institute for Brain Research, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her parents keep a home in Massachusetts, but live mostly in Orlando, Florida. Her sisters are Christine Poitras, an ESL teacher, and Jennifer Poitras, a disaster response planner and consultant.

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In 2013 Poitras was one of the initial three journalists to meet Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and to receive copies of the leaked NSA documents. Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald are the only two people with full archives of Snowden’s leaked NSA documents, according to Greenwald.

Facts & Trivia

Laura Ranked on the list of most popular Film Producer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Laura Poitras celebrates birthday on February 2 of every year.

“I come from a filmmaking tradition where I’m using the camera—it’s my lens to express the filmmaking I do. In the same way that a writer uses their language, for me it’s the images that tell the story … the camera is my tool for documenting things, so I stay mostly behind it.”

Top Facts about Laura Poitras

1. Laura Poitras is an American documentary filmmaker.
2. She won an Academy Award for her film Citizenfour.
3. Poitras co-founded The Intercept with Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill.
4. Her films focus on surveillance, government secrecy, and the war on terror.
5. She was detained and interrogated by US officials over her work.
6. Poitras has been awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant.
7. She directed Risk, a documentary about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
8. Poitras’ films have premiered at Cannes, Sundance, and Berlinale festivals.
9. She studied filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute.
10. Poitras is known for her investigative journalism through film-making

Who is Glenn Greenwald Laura Poitras?

In 2013, Poitras was one of the initial three journalists to meet Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and to receive copies of leaked NSA documents. Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald are the only two people with full archives of Snowden’s leaked NSA documents, according to Greenwald.

Is Citizenfour real?

CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller , unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by …

Does Netflix have Citizenfour?

Rent CITIZENFOUR (2014) on DVD and Blu-ray – DVD Netflix.

Who made Citizen 4?

Citizenfour
Theatrical release poster
Directed by| Laura Poitras
Produced by| Laura Poitras Mathilde Bonnefoy Dirk Wilutzky
Starring| Edward Snowden Glenn Greenwald William Binney Jacob Appelbaum Ewen MacAskill

Where does Laura Poitras live now?

Poitras is once again in New York , having moved back to the city after several years basing herself out of Berlin.