In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras, who is working on the third part of her multi-award-winning trilogy about the United States after 9/11, receives encrypted emails from a stranger calling himself “Citizen Four” offering evidence of covert mass surveillance programmes by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, Laura Poitras and journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill fly to Hong Kong to meet with “Citizen Four” – Edward Snowden. Laura Poitras always has her camera with her during these hours and days that will change our world forever.
AWARDS
Oscar, Emmy, BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Critics Choice Award, IDA Award, Deutscher Filmpreis, Satellite Award, Gotham Independent Film Award, Humanitas Prize, Independent Spirit Award, ALFS Award, NSFC Award, Palm Springs International Film Festival Award, SDFCS Award, Cinema for Peace Award
BROADCASTERS
NDR/BR/ARD
SUPPORTED BY
Deutsche Filmförderung
GERMAN VERSION
a&o buero
COMMISSIONING EDITOR
Barbara Biemann (NDR)
DIRECTOR
Laura Poitras
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Steven Soderbergh
Jeff Skoll
Diane Weyermann
David Menschel
Tom Quinn
Sheila Nevins
PRODUCERS
Dirk Wilutzky
Laura Poitras
Mathilde Bonnefoy
EDITOR
Mathilde Bonnefoy
CAMERA AND SOUND
Laura Poitras
Kirsten Johnson
Katy Scoggin
Trevor Paglin
MUSIC
Nine Inch Nails
Trent Raznor & Atticus Ross
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
Mathilde Bonnefoy
Svenja Rieck
Daniel Buresch
LEGAL ADVICE
Andreas Pense
Unverzagt von Have
Joshua L. Dratel, P.C.
Wolfgang Schomburg
Sönke Hilbrans
Victoria A. Kovner
Davis Wright Tremaire, LLP
Frank Denhn, DehnSmith
Klaus Siekmann (NDR)
ARCHIVE
The Associated Press
Sheila Fitzsimmons
The Guardian
South China Morning Post
Julian Assange
Sunshine Press Productions
Democracy Now Productions
CNN
NBC Universal
THANKS TO
American Civil Liberties Union
Chaos Computer Club
Debian GNU/Linux
DER SPIEGEL
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Freedom of the Press Foundation
GNU Privacy Guard
The Guardian
The Intercept
New York Times
Off-The-Record messaging
SecureDrop
Tails
The Tor Project
TrueCrypt
WikiLeaks
DURATION
96 mins
YEAR
2015
