Laura Poitras

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.

Production

2025

Cover-Up

Producer

2025

Flood

Executive Producer

2023

5 Seasons of Revolution

Executive Producer

2022

2021

2019

Shooting the Mafia

Executive Producer

2019

Cablestreet

Executive Producer

2019

XY Chelsea

Executive Producer

2019

Days of Black and Yellow

Executive Producer

2019

Ghosts of Sugar Land

Executive Producer

2018

In the Absence

Executive Producer

2018

Crooked Lines

Executive Producer

2018

Lasting Marks

Executive Producer

2018

The Panama Papers

Executive Producer

2018

2018

Dancing with Le Pen

Executive Producer

2018

The Earth is Humming

Executive Producer

2018

Crime + Punishment

Executive Producer

2017

Personal Truth

Executive Producer

2017

A Night at the Garden

Executive Producer

2017

Gavin Grimm vs.

Executive Producer

2017

Risk

Producer

2017

Strong Island

Executive Producer

2016

Like

Executive Producer

2014

Citizenfour

Producer

2010

The Oath

Producer

2006

1988

POV

Producer

Directing

2025

Cover-Up

Director

2022

2021

2021

2017

Risk

Director

2016

Project X

Director

2014

Citizenfour

Director

2010

The Oath

Director

2006

1988

POV

Director

Acting

2017

2017

Risk

Self (voice)

2017

Meeting Snowden

Self - Journalist (archive footage)

2016

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)

2014

2008

1996

1951

Camera

2022

2021

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

Director of Photography

2017

Risk

Director of Photography

2010

The Oath

Director of Photography

2006

My Country, My Country

Director of Photography

1988

POV

Director of Photography

Editing

Sound

2017

Risk

Sound Recordist

Crew

Infos

Full Name
Laura Poitras
Gender
Female
Date of Birth
2/2/1964