Citizenfour (2014) 720p

Citizenfour is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras concerning Edward Snowden
and the NSA spying scandal. Shot in the cinéma vérité style, the film had its U.S. premiere
on October 10, 2014 at the New York Film Festival and its UK premiere on October 17, 2014
at the BFI London Film Festival. The film features Glenn Greenwald and was co-produced by
Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, and Dirk Wilutzky, with Steven Soderbergh and others serving as
executive producers.

In January 2013, Laura Poitras received an encrypted e-mail from a stranger who called
himself Citizen Four. In it, he offered her inside information about illegal wiretapping
practices of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence agencies. Poitras
had already been working for several years on a film about monitoring programs in the US
that were the result of the September 11 attacks. In June 2013, accompanied by investigative
journalist Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian intelligence reporter Ewen MacAskill, she went
to Hong Kong with her camera for the first meeting with the stranger, who identified himself
as Edward Snowden. Several other meetings followed. The recordings gained from the meetings
form the basis of the film.

Citizenfour won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2015 Oscars,
along with numerous other awards.

Website: https://citizenfourfilm.com/
IMDb: tt4044364

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