Born in Boston in 1964, Laura Poitras trained as a chef and studied film in San Francisco. Her documentaries about post-September 11 America include My Country, My Country (2006), on the American occupation of Iraq, and The Oath (2010), on Guantánamo. In 2013 she was contacted by Edward Snowden and filmed him in Hong Kong for Citizenfour (2014), which won the Oscar for documentary. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), on the artist Nan Goldin and the campaign against the Sackler family, won the Golden Lion.
Filmography
- My Country, My Country (2006)
- The Oath (2010)
- Citizenfour (2014)
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)