WikiLeaks seemed to be reinventing journalism when it launched in 2006 as an online platform allowing sources to leak classified information anonymously. Poitras was one of the journalists who worked with Snowden to publicize the information along with journalist Glenn Greenwald. Assange alleges in the film that he is the victim of a radical feminist conspiracy over his being wanted for questioning on sexual assault allegations by the Swedish authorities. Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks". Her reporting on NSA mass surveillance based on Snowden’s disclosures won the George Polk Award for national security journalism, and shared in the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

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In 2010, it received more than 700,000 US military and state department documents and released the Collateral Murder tape showing a US Army Apache helicopter crew killing 15 civilians (including two Reuters journalists) – as the crew laughed at the “dead bastards” saying “light ’em up!Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. I come from a filmmaking tradition where I'm using the camera—it's my lens to express the filmmaking I do. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial.

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When, after the shivers and shimmers of the score by Soundwalk Collective, Lucinda Williams’ voice comes over the closing credits, a voice infused with hard knocks and openheartedness, it’s the perfect cap to the film, emphasizing that this did happen, and there’s no point in looking away. So the interviews were immediately… the first interview, there are large portions that are in the film. Last year, WikiLeaks exposed the Democratic party leadership’s bias against Bernie Sanders and for Hillary Clinton. Instead they and some of the doctors they consulted silenced their firstborn with the label of mental illness.Astro Noise: A Survival Guide includes contributions by Ai Weiwei, Jacob Appelbaum, Lakhdar Boumediene, Kate Crawford, Alex Danchev, Cory Doctorow, Dave Eggers, Jill Magid, Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, and Hito Steyerl. She’s somebody who is being motivated as an artist by what she needs to say, without always so much reflecting on it. But then there’s the family of friends, the outré misfits and downtown deviants who Goldin has celebrated in her work for more than 50 years, people who turned their backs on convention and created a subculture. He can get a little bit talky, if you watch some of his public appearances, but that’s not something that pissed me off.

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In 2007, the not-for-profit organisation discovered that some prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay were denied access to the Red Cross. The film was nominated for an Academy Award, won an Independent Spirit Award, and was named best documentary of the year by New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics. In 2017, Goldin set up PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) to rail against the branch of the Sackler family involved with Purdue Pharma, which manufactured and distributed Oxycontin (a substance that, when Goldin was prescribed it for a wrist injury, led to her own opioid addiction) and their attempt to clean up their name by sponsoring art spaces. We didn’t, and then he sent a text saying the film is a threat to his freedom and he is forced to treat it accordingly. Barbara’s suicide provided the foundational trauma of Nan’s life, and the inspiration for the chosen-family slideshows The Other Side and The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (dedicated, of course, to Barbara’s memory).Luca Guadagnino won the Silver Lion award for best director for the cannibal romance Bones and All starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell, who also was recognised for her performance with the best young actress award. In fact, the director could have manufactured more drama out of the subject through editing and dramatic music if desired. Unlike her predecessor Diane Arbus, with whom she is sometimes lumped in (which doesn’t much please her), Goldin’s way of chronicling New York life was to turn her camera on her own life, pointing her unflinching lens at the drag artists, club kids, drug addicts and hustlers who made up her group of friends to show them partying, fighting, breaking up, dreaming, bonding with their children, taking drugs and having sex in the late Seventies and early Eighties. The justice department entered into a settlement agreement with the opioid company that would charge it with three felonies.

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News reported that in 2017, after the publication of the Vault 7 files by WikiLeaks, "top intelligence officials lobbied the White House" to designate Poitras as an "information broker" to allow for more investigative tools against her, "potentially paving the way" for her prosecution. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” began when Goldin sought a producer for a documentary she was making. You’re the second high-profile person to leave the company over the past 12 months after Glenn Greenwald resigned last fall over The Intercept’s decision to kill his story about Hunter Biden. Growing up, Laura planned to become a chef, and spent several years as a cook at L'Espalier, a French restaurant located in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. Curated by Jay Sanders, the exhibition featured a series of new immersive installations: Anarchist, O’Say Can You See, Bed Down Location, Disposition Matrix, November 20, 2004, and Last Seen.

Poitras co-directed, produced, and shot her documentary, Flag Wars (2003), about gentrification in Columbus, Ohio. The go-to architect and designer of the Paris jet set, Laura Gonzalez has left her invigorating mix-and-match touch on residences, hotels, restaurants and boutiques worldwide while conquering the French capital. The documentary was based on interviews with William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency, who became a whistleblower and described the details of the Stellar Wind project that he helped to design. She also believes the Guardian and the Washington Post took too much credit for the Snowden story and literally tried to push her out of the limelight.