"CITIZENFOUR is the never before seen, utterly riveting first-person look
at how director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald first met
with whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong where he gave them
documents showing widespread abuses of power by the National Security
Administration. It is an unprecedented fly-on-the-wall account of one
of the most groundbreaking moments in recent history.
"In January
2013, Poitras (recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Genius Fellowship and
co-recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service) was several
years into making a film about surveillance in the post-9/11 era when
she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself
as 'citizen four,' who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive
covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence
agencies. In June 2013, she and Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the
first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Snowden. She
brought her camera with her. The film that resulted from this series of
tense encounters is absolutely sui generis in the history of cinema: a
100% real-life thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes."
Read more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiGwAvd5mvM
"The truth will ser you free," they say. Tell that to Edward Snowden.
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