Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras represents, for me, the idea that the act of filming can itself be resistance. Capturing Edward Snowden in Citizenfour was not just documentary work; it was a calculated risk against the apparatus of surveillance she was exposing. The MacArthur, the Guggenheim, the Polk, the Academy Award, these are not decorations so much as scars from sustained confrontation with power. I am drawn to artists who point the lens at what others want hidden, and few do it with her composure. Poitras turns observation into a moral stance, and that, to me, is the highest form of filmmaking.

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Name (English)

Laura Poitras

Name (Japanese)

ローラ・ポイトラス

Reading

ろーら・ぽいとらす

Born

February 2, 1964 (age 62)

Origin

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

film producer / film director / journalist / camera operator / cinematographer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dragon

Awards & achievements

• 2013 EFF Award
• 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2012 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2013 George Polk Award
• 2014 Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize
• 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
• 2014 Medal Carl von Ossietzky
• 2010 Anonymous Was A Woman Award

• Official sitehttps://praxisfilms.org/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Poitras
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9D%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6499321

Tags

• Massachusetts
• film producer
• film director
• journalist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.