Director
Laura Poitras
62 years · Boston, Massachusetts, USA · 26 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 26
They're Here
2026 · Editor, Producer
Cover-Up
2025 · Director, Producer
On Netflix
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022 · Director, Producer
On Kanopy
Relative
2022 · Producer
On Plex
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021 · Director, Producer
On Kanopy
Terror Contagion
2021 · Director
Deathtrap on the East River
2021 · Director
Triple-Chaser
2019 · Director
Concussion Protocol
2018 · Producer
Risk
2017 · Self (voice), Director
On Plex
Meeting Snowden
2017 · Self - Journalist (archive footage)
On Kanopy
Clowns
2017 · Producer
On Tubi TV
Project X
2016 · Director
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016 · Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
On Kanopy
The Vote
2016 · Producer
Citizenfour
2014 · Self, Director
On Hoopla
PRISM: Whistleblower
2013 · Director, Editor
Death of a Prisoner
2013 · Director, Editor
The Program
2012 · Director, Editor
O'Say Can You See 1
2011 · Cinematography, Producer
O'Say Can You See 2
2011 · Director, Producer
The Oath
2010 · Director, Producer
Capturing Reality
2008 · Self
On Philo
My Country, My Country
2006 · Director, Producer