Laura Poitras Collection [Blu-ray]

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More Secrets on Growing State Surveillance: Exclusive Part 2 with NSA Whistleblower, Targeted Hacker, Democracy Now! Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras’ documentary about photographer Nan Goldin (above) and her activism against the Sackler family, took the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival. Heads of the NSA and other security agencies are shown in the film denying the existence of the surveillance program to Congress and on news programs. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a 2022 documentary film which examines the life and career of photographer and activist Nan Goldin and her efforts to hold Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, accountable for the opioid epidemic. The hundreds of heavily redacted documents reveal that the FBI conducted physical and digital surveillance of her, sent FBI agents to her film screenings, subpoenaed her private communications, and conducted a classified counterintelligence investigation.

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Laura Poitras Talks 'Citizenfour' Nomination: Nominees Night Party", The Hollywood Reporter, archived from the original on April 5, 2015 Video interview. N.) and wanted to complete a film about its art-museum protests against Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family. I knew it was going to give me a kind of intimacy that wouldn’t be there if there was a camera and a crew,” said Poitras. Goldin previously dealt with some of these intimate moments in her own work, but this was different. The doc points out that before OxyContin, the Sacklers were pushing Valium hard, and Poitras includes a few of those nightmare ads that once flourished, targeting women and their anxieties, the goal not so much to make them feel better as to make them less of a problem for their husbands and families.The film premiered on September 3, 2022, at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, [73] where it was awarded the Golden Lion making it the second documentary (following Sacro GRA in 2013) to win the top prize at Venice. Thank you so much, it’s such an enormous honour,” Blanchett said, having just flown back to Venice from the Telluride film festival, where the film also played.

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Those documents reveal how our government, with the cooperation of major telecom and internet companies, has been surveilling our electronic communications. When, after the shivers and shimmers of the score by Soundwalk Collective, Lucinda Williams’ voice comes over the closing credits, a voice infused with hard knocks and openheartedness, it’s the perfect cap to the film, emphasizing that this did happen, and there’s no point in looking away. She was arrested by federal investigators before the story was published and is currently serving a five-year prison sentence, which Poitras attributed to The Intercept’s inability to protect its source.Goldin herself was prescribed OxyContin for pain relief and, she says with the laconic candour that is evident throughout the film, she became addicted to the drug almost immediately. Not forgetting Assange the wannabe celeb, who readily acquiesces to Gaga’s request for him to wear a T-shirt instead of his shirt, so he looks different for her fans.