Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras pada tahun 2014
Lahir	1964 (umur 59–60)[1] Boston, Massachusetts, Amerika Serikat[1]
Pendidikan	The New School (B.A., 1996)
Pekerjaan	Sutradara film
Situs web	praxisfilms.org
Penghargaan (10 September 2022) Singa Emas (2015) Film Dokumenter Terbaik (2014) Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize ^(en) (2014) Carl von Ossietzky Medal ^(en) (2014) Medal Carl von Ossietzky ^(en) (2014) Pulitzer Prize for Public Service ^(en) (2013) EFF Award ^(en) (2013) George Polk Award ^(en) (2012) MacArthur Fellows Program ^(en) (2010) Anonymous Was A Woman Award ^(en) (2007) Guggenheim Fellowship ^(en) Marion Dönhoff Award ^(en)

Laura Poitras (diucapkan POY-tras;[2] born 1964)[1] adalah sutradara dan produser film dokumenter Amerika Serikat sekaligus pemenang Academy Award.[3] Saat ini ia menetap di Berlin.[4]

Poitras telah memenangkan berbagai penghargaan atas film-film karyanya, termasuk Citizenfour (2014) yang membahas Edward Snowden dan menang Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature,[5][6] sedangkan My Country, My Country mendapatkan nominasi di kategori yang sama pada tahun 2007.[7] Ia memenangkan George Polk Award 2013 atas "liputan keamanan nasional" yang terkait dengan pengintaian NSA. Liputan NSA oleh Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, dan Barton Gellman membuat The Guardian dan The Washington Post dianugerahi Pulitzer Prize for Public Service pada tahun 2014.[8][9][10][11][12]

Ia merupakan peserta MacArthur Fellow 2012, dan salah satu pendukung awal Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Filmografi

• Exact Fantasy (1995)
• Flag Wars (2003)
• Oh Say Can You See... (2003)
• My Country, My Country (2006)
• The Oath (2010)
• Citizenfour (2014)

Referensi

1. "Laura Poitras". Whitney Museum of American Art. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2014-12-20. Diakses tanggal January 3, 2015. 
2. Laura Poitras Talks 'Citizenfour' Nomination: Nominees Night Party, Hollywood Reporter  Video interview. Pronunciation confirmed at beginning of video.
3. "The inside story". The National. February 17, 2010. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2010-02-19. Diakses tanggal 2015-03-26. 
4. ZEIT ONLINE GmbH, Hamburg, Germany (August 19, 2013). "NSA-Affäre: Die Berliner Snowden-Connection". ZEIT ONLINE. Diakses tanggal October 22, 2014. Pemeliharaan CS1: Banyak nama: authors list (link)
5. "The 87th Academy Awards". oscars.org. Diakses tanggal January 15, 2015. 
6. D'Addario, Daniel (February 22, 2015). "Citizenfour Wins Best Documentary at the Oscars". Time. Diakses tanggal February 22, 2015. 
7. "Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour wins Oscar". The Guardian. Diakses tanggal February 22, 2015. 
8. "A Pulitzer triumph: Snowden reporting wins journalism's top prize". Diakses tanggal April 20, 2014. 
9. "Greenwald, Poitras, Gellman, MacAskill: key in NSA coverage". Phys.org. Diakses tanggal October 22, 2014. 
10. "Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations". Guardian. Diakses tanggal April 20, 2014. 
11. Mirkinson, Jack. "The Pulitzer Prizes Just Demolished The Idea That Edward Snowden Is A Traitor". Diakses tanggal April 17, 2014. 
12. "Filmmaker Laura Poitras' Work Rewarded With a Pulitzer Prize". Diakses tanggal April 17, 2014. 

Pranala luar

• Praxis Films which distributes Laura Poitras films
• Websites for Laura Poitras' films: My Country, My country, The Oath Diarsipkan 2012-04-28 di Wayback Machine.
• Detained in the US: Filmmaker Laura Poitras Held, Questioned Some 40 Times at US Airports, Democracy Now!, April 20, 2012.
• The Program, by Laura Poitras, New York Times, August 22, 2012.
• Laura Poitras & Glenn Greenwald Back in U.S. for First Time Since Breaking NSA-Snowden Story (video), Democracy Now!, April 11, 2014
• Laura Poitras di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)