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Article: Citizenfour In Theaters Oct 24


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Citizenfour In Theaters Oct 24CITIZENFOUR is the never before seen, utterly riveting first-person look at how director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald first met with whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong where he gave them documents showing widespread abuses of power by the National Security Administration. It is an unprecedented fly-on-the-wall account of one of the most groundbreaking moments in recent history.

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CITIZENFOUR

Official Selection of the 2014 New York Film Festival

Directed by Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Genius Fellowship Winner Laura Poitras
Executive Produced by Steven Soderbergh

In Theaters on October 24th

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CITIZENFOUR is the never before seen, utterly riveting first-person look at how director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald first met with whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong where he gave them documents showing widespread abuses of power by the National Security Administration. It is an unprecedented fly-on-the-wall account of one of the most groundbreaking moments in recent history.

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Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong.

In January 2013, Poitras (recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Genius Fellowship and co-recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service) was several years into making a film about surveillance in the post-9/11 era when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as "citizen four," who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, she and Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The film that resulted from this series of tense encounters is absolutely sui generis in the history of cinema: a 100% real-life thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes.

Executive Produced by Steven Soderbergh.

Film Society of Lincoln Center

CITIZENFOUR
Laura Poitras, 2014
USA/Germany | Format: DCP |
Special Presentation
World Premiere
Showtimes
Fri, Oct 10 6:00pm
Sat, Oct 11 1:00pm
HBO DIRECTORS DIALOGUE: LAURA POITRAS

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The NSA. Photo by Trevor Paglen.

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GCHQ satellites in Bude, England. Photo by Trevor Paglen.

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Edward Snowden

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Director Laura Poitras

News Editor October 12, 2014, 8:06 am