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Kirsten Johnson

Kirsten Johnson

“I'm only ever trying to build something that will be relevant in the current conversation and clearly there were elements of that conversation that I had not addressed, specifically, do we represent other people if our images of them might put them in danger? That is a border-crossing question because talking about an abortion in one culture can have different consequences in another culture.”

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    Citizenfour

    CITIZENFOUR

    LAURA POITRAS United States, 2014

    Before earning an Oscar® nomination with All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras won an Academy Award® for Citizenfour. Capturing lightning in a bottle, the documentarian worked with whistleblower Edward Snowden as he exposed the United States’ far-reaching program of mass surveillance.

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