Citizenfour

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Citizenfour is a 2014 documentary film by Laura Poitras that chronicles Edward Snowden’s revelations about global mass surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency.

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instanceOf documentary film
film
awardReceived Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
BAFTA Award for Best Documentary
Cinema Eye Honors Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature
basedOn real events
cinematographyBy Laura Poitras
countryOfOrigin Germany
United Kingdom
United States
director Laura Poitras
distributor RADiUS-TWC
editedBy Mathilde Bonnefoy
featuresCharacter Edward Snowden
Ewen MacAskill
Glenn Greenwald
Laura Poitras
filmingLocation Hong Kong
Moscow
genre documentary about surveillance
political documentary
hasTitle Citizenfour
language English
mainLocation Hong Kong
musicBy Atticus Ross
Nine Inch Nails
Trent Reznor
narrativeFocus revelations about NSA mass surveillance
notableFor depicting Edward Snowden’s NSA disclosures
originalWorkTitle CITIZENFOUR
producer Dirk Wilutzky
Laura Poitras
Mathilde Bonnefoy
productionCompany Praxis Films
publicationDate 2014-10-10
releaseYear 2014
runningTimeMinutes 114
setInPeriod 2013
subject Edward Snowden
National Security Agency
global mass surveillance
government surveillance
whistleblowing
topic PRISM surveillance program
U.S. National Security Agency
worldPremiereDate 2014-10-10
worldPremiereLocation New York Film Festival


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