Citizenfour
In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was in the process of constructing a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four,” who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.
Edward Snowden
Glenn Greenwald
William Binney
Jacob Appelbaum
Ewen MacAskill
Laura Poitras
Producer:
Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky
Written by:
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Distributor:
Radius-TWC
$2.5 million
Awards:
2014 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Non-Fiction Film
2014 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Non-Fiction Film
2014 Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary
Oscar Nominated Best Documentary Feature (2014)
DGA Nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary (2014)
Cinema Eye Honor for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking (2014)
Cinema Eye Honor for Outstanding Achievement in Direction (2014)
Cinema Eye Honor for Outstanding Achievement in Editing (2014)
Cinema Eye Honor for Outstanding Achievement in Production (2014)