Laura Poitras
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 2, 1964
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Filmography
- The Rashomon Effect
The Rashomon Effect TBA
Executive Producer
My Undesirable Friends: Part II—Exile 2026
Executive Producer
They're Here 2026
Editor, Producer, Director
Flood 2026
Executive Producer
Cover-Up 2025
Director, Producer, Editor
5 Seasons of Revolution 2023
Executive Producer
How to Have an American Baby 2023
Executive Producer
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2022
Director, Producer, Camera Operator
Relative 2022
Producer
Terror Contagion 2021
Director
The Year of the Everlasting Storm 2021
Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor
Deathtrap on the East River 2021
Director
Landfall 2020
Executive Producer
Shooting the Mafia 2019
Executive Producer
Cablestreet 2019
Executive Producer
The Proposal 2019
Executive Producer
XY Chelsea 2019
Executive Producer
Triple-Chaser 2019
Director
Scenes from a Dry City 2019
Executive Producer
The Trial 2019
Executive Producer
Days of Black and Yellow 2019
Executive Producer
Ghosts of Sugar Land 2019
Executive Producer
Easter Snap 2019
Executive Producer
Libre 2019
Executive Producer
In the Absence 2018
Executive Producer
Crooked Lines 2018
Executive Producer
Lasting Marks 2018
Executive Producer
The Panama Papers 2018
Executive Producer
Hale County This Morning, This Evening 2018
Executive Producer
Nuuca 2018
Executive Producer
Dancing with Le Pen 2018
Executive Producer
Discreet Airlift 2018
Executive Producer
Adversary 2018
Executive Producer
The Earth is Humming 2018
Executive Producer
Concussion Protocol 2018
Producer
Crime + Punishment 2018
Executive Producer
Our New President 2018
Executive Producer
Graven Image 2017
Executive Producer
American Carnage 2017
Executive Producer
Personal Truth 2017
Executive Producer
A Night at the Garden 2017
Executive Producer
Gavin Grimm vs. 2017
Executive Producer
National Disintegrations 2017
Executive Producer
Duterte's Hell 2017
Executive Producer
Conditioned Response 2017
Executive Producer
Our New President 2017
Executive Producer
Picket Line 2017
Executive Producer
Risk 2017
as Self (voice), Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Recordist
Meeting Snowden 2017
as Self - Journalist (archive footage)
Clowns 2017
Producer
The Moderators 2017
Executive Producer
Strong Island 2017
Executive Producer
Trump's Lobby 2017
Executive Producer
Relatively Free 2016
Executive Producer
Project X 2016
Director
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone 2016
as Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
The Vote 2016
Producer
The Journey 2016
Executive Producer
Like 2016
Executive Producer
Concerned Student 1950 2016
Executive Producer
- Speaking Is Difficult
Speaking Is Difficult 2016
Executive Producer
The Above 2015
Executive Producer
Citizenfour 2014
as Self, Director, Producer, Writer
- Evaporating Borders
Evaporating Borders 2014
Executive Producer
PRISM: Whistleblower 2013
Director, Cinematography, Editor
Death of a Prisoner 2013
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
The Program 2012
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
Keep the Lights On 2012
Thanks
O'Say Can You See 2 2011
Director, Producer, Editor
O'Say Can You See 1 2011
Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Director
The Oath 2010
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Capturing Reality 2008
as Self
My Country, My Country 2006
Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography
Flag Wars 2003
Director, Producer, Cinematography, Sound Recordist
Renga 1989
Director
Credits from TMDB.