With an ambitious new visual-journalism unit at The Intercept,the Citizenfour director is planning to capture non-fiction film-making into the unknownLaura Poitras doesn’t like to rest on her laurels. Less than a year after winning a Pulitzer prize for reporting on Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations and netting an Oscar for the ensuing documentary Citizenfour, she’s back in the spotlight with Asylum: a new short-form episodic series. In it she shadows Julian Assange as he publishes classified diplomatic cables and seeks asylum in Ecuador’s London embassy.
Three episodes of her series, or which serve as a prequel of sorts to Citizenfour,premiered on Sunday at the New York film festival. The shorts scored by Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails – were completed under the banner of Poitras’s new visual journalism unit, Field of Vision, or which she recently launched with fellow film-maker AJ Schnack and producer/writer Charlotte Cook,in collaboration with The Intercept, the adversarial journalism website she co-founded in 2014 with Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald. Both are funded by billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s First observe Media.
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Source: theguardian.com