CITIZENFOUR

CITIZENFOUR is a documentary film directed by Laura Piotras (The Oath, My Country My Country) and follows her interactions with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The film had its premiere at the New York Film Festival where it was well received.

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 the National Security Agency (NSA). Poitras had already been working on a film about surveillance for two years when Snowden contacted her, using the name “CITIZENFOUR,” in January 2013. He reached out to her because he knew she had long been a target of government surveillance, stopped at airports numerous times, and had refused to be intimidated. When Snowden revealed he was a high-level analyst driven to expose the massive surveillance of Americans by the NSA, Poitras persuaded him to let her film.

CITIZENFOUR is the third and final instalment in Poitras’ post-9/11 series of documentaries. The first film; My Country, My Country; was nominated for Best Documentary Feature in 2006 but lost to An Inconvenient Truth.

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