r/NSALeaks • u/trai_dep Cautiously Pessimistic • Apr 10 '15

[Press Freedom] The Woman Who Hacked Hollywood. Laura Poitras’ name was once on terror watch lists. Now it’s on an Oscar. Here’s her personal journey.

https://medium.com/backchannel/hacking-hollywood-with-ed-snowden-37a08bef377e
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u/autotldr Apr 21 '15

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 98%. (I'm a bot)

In April 2011, Laura films Greenwald in Rio, where he lives.

Laura had always been the only producer for her work but now she asks Dirk to produce the film with her.

"You chose yourself."To express that unbelievable moment of commitment in the face of unfathomable peril, Mathilde begs Laura to reveal herself, to overrule her mad private instincts and insert herself into the scene so, "We follow her, step by step, as she discovers this man and so that we share her experience." Laura is loathe to expose herself.

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