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Edward Snowden/Citizenfour
Topic Started: Feb 25 2015, 05:34 PM (1,303 Views)
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Citizenfour received the Academy Award on Sunday for Best Documentary Feature at the 2015 Oscars.

Citizenfour is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal. The film was co-produced by Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky, with Steven Soderbergh and others serving as executive producers. Shot in the cinéma vérité style, the film had its U.S. premiere on 10th October 2014 at the New York Film Festival and its UK premiere on 17th October 2014 at the BFI London Film Festival...it's currently showing at the ICA cinema in The Mall and at Garden City Cinema, Welwyn Garden City...but we can see it tonight for free on Channel 4!

Titled after the code name used by Edward Snowden when he decided to 'blow the whistle' on state sponsored surveilance, Laura Poitras's film follows their meetings in Hong Kong, where Snowden spent eight days sharing classified documents with her and the journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill...her documentary offers a new angle on the case, revealing the tense progression of events as Snowden's status moved from citizen to fugitive and the writers tried to work out what to do with the data...The information age has never looked so scary <yikes>

Channel 4 Tonight @ 11.05pm-1.10am or C4+1 an hour later



Edited by Mobson, Mar 2 2015, 06:11 PM.
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Just 2 days left to the watch the Oscar winning exposé of the dangers of government surveillance. You will never again think the same way about your phone, email, credit card, web browser or profile.... http://www.channel4.com/programmes/citizenfour

The Edward Snowden story led to the Guardian receiving the Pulitzer prize for public service...Ewen MacAskill, Defence and intelligence correspondent of The Guardian first met Edward Snowden in June 2013 in Hong Kong. At first he thought it would turn out to be a routine assignment but the NSA and GCHQ revelations turned out to be one of the most important stories the Guardian has broken in recent years.

The filmmaker Laura Poitras filmed that first encounter with Snowden; the moment appears in her documentary Citizenfour, which just won the Best Documentary Feature at this year's Oscars.

Tonight at Kings Place in London the Guardian will be screening the documentary, alongside a discussion and Q&A with those who were central to breaking the story: Ewen MacAskill; the Guardian's editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger; editor-in-chief of the guardian.com Janine Gibson and head of news Stuart Millar.

Mark Lawson will chair the sold-out event, which I'll be watching, as they explain how the story came into being and continues to have an impact on politics, privacy and much more beyond.


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