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Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras was an American film producer, film director, journalist, camera operator, cinematographer and screenwriter (born 1964). She was born at Boston.

Laura Poitras in brief

Born
1964
Known for
film producer,film director,journalist,camera operator,cinematographer,screenwriter,documentarian
Place of birth
Boston

Overview

Born at Boston in 1964.

Recognition and collections

Laura Poitras received EFF Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, George Polk Award, Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize and Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. Work by Laura Poitras is held by Museum of Modern Art.

Catalogued works

4 works under this name are catalogued by Open Library.

Josh Kline. Diagrams of Power. Risk. Astro noise.

Literature

5 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Poitras, Laura, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2019. Laura Poitras, The Sublimity of Document, 2019. Review: Laura Poitras: Astro Noise, Afterimage, 2016. Risk: Julian Assange film by Laura Poitras blurs the line between film and filmmaker, 2017. THE ASSUMPTION THAT GLENN GREENWALD AND LAURA POITRAS ARE MORE INTELLIGENT THAN ME…, Women, Whistleblowing, WikiLeaks.

Naming and authority record

This heading is established in VIAF (41553150). Those registers additionally record the forms Laura Poitras, 1964-, Laura Poitras American documentary film director and producer, Laura Poitras, americká režisérka a producentka, Laura Poitras, dokumentarist, Laura Poitras, Amerikaans filmproducente and Laura Poitras, documentalista y productora estadounidense.

In detail

Laura Poitras studied at The New School.

Residence is recorded at New York City. Employment is recorded with The Intercept.

Work by Laura Poitras is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art.

Distinctions recorded are EFF Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program and George Polk Award.

Chronology

  1. 1964Laura Poitras born at Boston.

Sources

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  • reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

    “Laura Poitras”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  • reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q6499321: Laura Poitras

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