Laura Poitras
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.
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Films (75)
My Undesirable Friends: Part II—Exile
2026 · Executive Producer
They're Here
2026 · Editor, Producer, Director
Flood
2026 · Executive Producer
Cover-Up : Un journaliste face au pouvoir
2025 · Director, Producer, Editor
5 Seasons of Revolution
2023 · Executive Producer
How to Have an American Baby
2023 · Executive Producer
Toute la beauté et le sang versé
2022 · Director, Producer, Camera Operator
Relative
2022 · Producer
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor
Terror Contagion
2021 · Director
Deathtrap on the East River
2021 · Director
Landfall
2020 · Executive Producer
Shooting the Mafia
2019 · Executive Producer
Cablestreet
2019 · Executive Producer
XY Chelsea
2019 · Executive Producer
The Proposal
2019 · Executive Producer
Triple-Chaser
2019 · Director
Scenes from a Dry City
2019 · Executive Producer
The Trial
2019 · Executive Producer
Days of Black and Yellow
2019 · Executive Producer
Les Fantômes de Sugar Land
2019 · Executive Producer
Libre
2019 · Executive Producer
Easter Snap
2019 · Executive Producer
In the Absence
2018 · Executive Producer
Crooked Lines
2018 · Executive Producer
Lasting Marks
2018 · Executive Producer
The Panama Papers
2018 · Executive Producer
Hale County, jour après jour
2018 · Executive Producer
Nuuca
2018 · Executive Producer
Dancing with Le Pen
2018 · Executive Producer
Discreet Airlift
2018 · Executive Producer
Adversary
2018 · Executive Producer
The Earth is Humming
2018 · Executive Producer
Concussion Protocol
2018 · Producer
Crime + Punishment
2018 · Executive Producer
Our New President
2018 · Executive Producer
Graven Image
2017 · Executive Producer
American Carnage
2017 · Executive Producer
Personal Truth
2017 · Executive Producer
A Night at the Garden
2017 · Executive Producer
Gavin Grimm vs.
2017 · Executive Producer
National Disintegrations
2017 · Executive Producer
Duterte's Hell
2017 · Executive Producer
Conditioned Response
2017 · Executive Producer
Our New President
2017 · Executive Producer
Picket Line
2017 · Executive Producer
Risk
2017 · Self (voice), Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Recordist
Meeting Snowden
2017 · Self - Journalist (archive footage)
Clowns
2017 · Producer
The Moderators
2017 · Executive Producer
Strong Island
2017 · Executive Producer
Trump's Lobby
2017 · Executive Producer
Relatively Free
2016 · Executive Producer
Project X
2016 · Director
Tous les gouvernements mentent
2016 · Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
The Vote
2016 · Producer
The Journey
2016 · Executive Producer
Like
2016 · Executive Producer
Concerned Student 1950
2016 · Executive Producer
Speaking Is Difficult
2016 · Executive Producer
The Above
2015 · Executive Producer
Citizenfour
2014 · Self, Director, Producer, Writer
Evaporating Borders
2014 · Executive Producer
PRISM: Whistleblower
2013 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
Death of a Prisoner
2013 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography
The Program
2012 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography
Keep the Lights On
2012 · Thanks
O'Say Can You See 1
2011 · Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Director
O'Say Can You See 2
2011 · Director, Producer, Editor
The Oath
2010 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Capturing Reality
2008 · Self
My Country, My Country
2006 · Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography
Flag Wars
2003 · Director, Producer, Cinematography, Sound Recordist
Renga
1989 · Director
The Rashomon Effect
· Executive Producer
