Snowden film 'CitizenFour' wins top documentary award

[madfloridian]

Snowden film 'CitizenFour' wins top documentary award


Director Laura Poitras of the best feature award nominee 'Citizenfour' poses at the International Documentary Association's 2014 IDA Documentary Awards in Los Angeles December 5, 2014.Credit: Reuters/Danny Moloshok

(Reuters) - "CitizenFour," filmmaker Laura Poitras's documentary about National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, was given the top award for best feature by the International Documentary Association on Friday.

The IDA award for "CitizenFour" follows the film's best documentary win at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards this week. It was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award last month and is among 15 films advancing in the Oscars best documentary race.

"CitizenFour" gives a fly-on-the-wall account of Snowden's tense days in a Hong Kong hotel and encounters with journalists as newspapers published details of NSA programs that gathered data from the Internet activities and phone records of millions of Americans and dozens of world leaders.

U.S. filmmaker Poitras shared a Pulitzer Prize this year for her role in publicizing the Snowden documents. She was awarded IDA's Courage Under Fire award last year for her "conspicuous bravery in the pursuit of truth."

[Luminous Animal]

1. It is a great film. And Poitras is a great film maker. Her other docs are

amazing.

[m-lekktor]

4. i saw her other two but not citizenfour. i like her style.

she just lets the camera roll and doesn't inject herself. i look forward to seeing citizenfour.

[pa28]

2. It made the Oscar short list this week as well.

Jodorowsky's Dune is great but I'd like to see this one win the Academy Award if only to raise awareness.

[madfloridian]

3. Did not realize that. Thanks.

[woo me with science]

14. Excellent news!

[nationalize the fed]

5. ^

If you SEE something
SAY something
Report Tyrannical Activity

[daredtowork]

6. Nice! nt

[Major Hogwash]

7. I'm very surprised.

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I thought Flo did a better job in her latest commercial for Progressive by playing all 6 members of her family playing a game of charades at Thanksgiving.
But then, that's just me.

[madfloridian]

8. I don't find that funny.

[sabrina 1]

10. So you saw the documentary then? What did you not like about it?

[Octafish]

9. NSA spying on Americans used to be illegal kick.

This is my police state -- right or wrong.



Nowadays, like Winston Smith, I've come to appreciate that if I've got nothing to hide, I've got nothing to fear.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

11. Sunday night kick. (n/t)

[Leopolds Ghost]

12. I got invited to the opening screening with comments from the filmmakers, but I couldn't attend.

Where I saw it the screening was sparsely populated.

[woo me with science]

13. K&R Whistleblowers and real journalists are today's American heroes.