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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.
Original Release
10/17/2014
US Release
10/24/2014
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Edward Snowden | Self |
Glenn Greenwald | Self |
William Binney | Self |
Jacob Appelbaum | Self |
Ewen MacAskill | Self |
Jeremy Scahill | Self |
M. Margaret McKeown | Self - Judge |
Kevin Bankston | Self - attorney representing Carolyn Jewel / Self |
Harry Pregerson | Self - Judge |
H. Thomas Byron | Self - Government Representative |
Directors
Cast
Name | Character |
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Edward Snowden | Self |
Glenn Greenwald | Self |
William Binney | Self |
Jacob Appelbaum | Self |
Ewen MacAskill | Self |
Jeremy Scahill | Self |
M. Margaret McKeown | Self - Judge |
Kevin Bankston | Self - attorney representing Carolyn Jewel / Self |
Harry Pregerson | Self - Judge |
H. Thomas Byron | Self - Government Representative |
Michael Daly Hawkins | Self - Judge |
Jonathan Man | Self - Human Rights Lawyer |
Robert Tibbo | Self - Human Rights Lawyer |
José Casado | Self |
Roberto Kaz | Self |
Julian Borger | Self - Editor, The Guardian |
Paul Johnson | Self |
Nick Hopkins | Self |
Julian Assange | Self |
Marcel Bosonnet | Self - Lawyer |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Daniel Buresch | Executive Producer |
David Menschel | Executive Producer |
Sheila Nevins | Executive Producer |
Tom Quinn | Executive Producer |
Jeff Skoll | Executive Producer |
Steven Soderbergh | Executive Producer |
Diane Weyermann | Executive Producer |
Laura Poitras | Producer |
Sara Bernstein | Producer |
Barbara Biemann | Producer |
Brenda Coughlin | Producer |
Kirsten Johnson | Producer |
Marcelo Lessa | Producer |
Sonja Scheider | Producer |
Katy Scoggin | Producer |
Dirk Wilutzky | Producer |
Mathilde Bonnefoy | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2015 | Oscar | Best Documentary, Feature | Won |
2015 | Emmy | Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking | Won |
2015 | Emmy | Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming | Nominated |
2015 | Emmy | Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming | Nominated |
2015 | Emmy | Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming | Nominated |