Laura Poitras ist eine US-amerikanische Dokumentarfilmregisseurin und Produzentin. Sie wurde am 2. Februar 1964 in Boston, Massachusetts, geboren und studierte an der New School in New York. Bekannt wurde sie mit dem Dokumentarfilm „Citizenfour“, für den sie den Oscar für den besten Dokumentarfilm erhielt. Zu ihren Auszeichnungen zählen außerdem ein EFF Award, ein Guggenheim-Stipendium, ein MacArthur Fellowship, der George Polk Award und der Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize. Auch „Risk“ und „Jede Regierung lügt: Wahrheit, Manipulation und der Geist des I. F. Stone“ gehören zu ihren Arbeiten.
Filmografie
Filme
2026 – My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile
2026 – They're Here
2026 – Flood
2025 – Cover-Up
2023 – 5 Seasons of Revolution
2023 – How to Have an American Baby
2022 – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022 – Relative
2021 – Terror Contagion
2021 – The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021 – Deathtrap on the East River
2020 – Landfall
2019 – Shooting the Mafia
2019 – Cablestreet
2019 – The Proposal
2019 – XY Chelsea
2019 – Triple-Chaser
2019 – Scenes from a Dry City
2019 – The Trial
2019 – Days of Black and Yellow
2019 – Ghosts of Sugar Land
2019 – Easter Snap
2019 – Libre
2018 – 부재의 기억
2018 – Crooked Lines
2018 – Lasting Marks
2018 – The Panama Papers
2018 – Hale County This Morning, This Evening
2018 – Nuuca
2018 – Danse avec Le Pen
2018 – Discreet Airlift
2018 – Adversary
2018 – The Earth is Humming
2018 – Concussion Protocol
2018 – Crime + Punishment
2018 – Our New President
2017 – Graven Image
2017 – American Carnage
2017 – Personal Truth
2017 – A Night at the Garden
2017 – Gavin Grimm vs.
2017 – National Disintegrations
2017 – Duterte's Hell
2017 – Conditioned Response
2017 – Our New President
2017 – Picket Line
2017 – Risk
2017 – Clowns
2017 – The Moderators
2017 – Strong Island
2017 – Trump's Lobby
2016 – Relatively Free
2016 – Project X
2016 – The Vote
2016 – The Journey
2016 – Like
2016 – Concerned Student 1950
2016 – Speaking Is Difficult
2015 – The Above
2014 – Citizenfour
2014 – Evaporating Borders
2013 – PRISM: Whistleblower
2013 – Death of a Prisoner
2012 – The Program
2011 – O'Say Can You See 1
2011 – O'Say Can You See 2
2010 – The Oath
2006 – My Country, My Country
2003 – Flag Wars
1989 – Renga
The Rashomon Effect Serien
1988 – POV
Filme
2026 – My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile
2026 – They're Here
2026 – Flood
2025 – Cover-Up
2023 – 5 Seasons of Revolution
2023 – How to Have an American Baby
2022 – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022 – Relative
2021 – Terror Contagion
2021 – The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021 – Deathtrap on the East River
2020 – Landfall
2019 – Shooting the Mafia
2019 – Cablestreet
2019 – The Proposal
2019 – XY Chelsea
2019 – Triple-Chaser
2019 – Scenes from a Dry City
2019 – The Trial
2019 – Days of Black and Yellow
2019 – Ghosts of Sugar Land
2019 – Easter Snap
2019 – Libre
2018 – 부재의 기억
2018 – Crooked Lines
2018 – Lasting Marks
2018 – The Panama Papers
2018 – Hale County This Morning, This Evening
2018 – Nuuca
2018 – Danse avec Le Pen
2018 – Discreet Airlift
2018 – Adversary
2018 – The Earth is Humming
2018 – Concussion Protocol
2018 – Crime + Punishment
2018 – Our New President
2017 – Graven Image
2017 – American Carnage
2017 – Personal Truth
2017 – A Night at the Garden
2017 – Gavin Grimm vs.
2017 – National Disintegrations
2017 – Duterte's Hell
2017 – Conditioned Response
2017 – Our New President
2017 – Picket Line
2017 – Risk
2017 – Clowns
2017 – The Moderators
2017 – Strong Island
2017 – Trump's Lobby
2016 – Relatively Free
2016 – Project X
2016 – The Vote
2016 – The Journey
2016 – Like
2016 – Concerned Student 1950
2016 – Speaking Is Difficult
2015 – The Above
2014 – Citizenfour
2014 – Evaporating Borders
2013 – PRISM: Whistleblower
2013 – Death of a Prisoner
2012 – The Program
2011 – O'Say Can You See 1
2011 – O'Say Can You See 2
2010 – The Oath
2006 – My Country, My Country
2003 – Flag Wars
1989 – Renga
The Rashomon Effect Serien
1988 – POV