In person: Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras’ films reveal truths hidden within activities posing unparalleled dangers to freedom. Poitras faces deeply disturbing subjects with unwavering honesty, creating portraits of people and situations with an artistic complexity, rigor and sense of humanity that transcends conventional political documentaries. Her renowned 9/11 Trilogy culminated with CITIZENFOUR (2014) receiving an Academy Award, and her parallel reporting on NSA surveillance received a Pulitzer Prize. Tonight Poitras will present several short films: Death of a Prisoner (2013), Project X (2016, with Henrik Moltke), O’Say Can You See (Afghanistan) (2016), and November 20, 2004 (work-in-progress), with footage that put her on a U.S. government watchlist.