Featuring Edward Snowden, CITIZENFOUR arrives in cinemas 31.10.14
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Rating: R
When: Opens Friday
Where: Landmark La Jolla Village
Running time: 1 hour, 54 minutes
Movies come along all the time that people say everyone should see. Usually, that isnt actually true, but I believe it is in the case of Citizenfour, the new documentary from filmmaker Laura Poitras about Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor who leaked a treasure-trove of classified documents to Poitras, journalist Glenn Greenwald and others last year, blowing the whistle on the NSAs massive surveillance and data-mining operation.
Put aside politics for a moment, as well as your feelings as to whether Snowden, a bright 29-year-old who tossed his life aside to expose those practices, is a hero, a patriot or a traitor. Citizenfour, which is the code name Snowden used when he originally contacted Poitras, puts you in the Hong Kong hotel room for the initial meetings between Snowden and Greenwald, and gives the viewer incredible insight into Snowdens personality and motives, as well as explaining precisely what the NSA and other intelligence organizations around the world have been up to.
It plays out like a real-life espionage thriller, and its horrifying in its scope. Most importantly, Citizenfour offers dramatic insight into what was probably the worlds biggest security breach of the new millennium, and might make you reconsider whether you currently think Snowden deserves the Nobel Peace Prize or a jail cell.
Perhaps the greatest strength of Citizenfour is the humanization of Ed Snowden. It hits home as you watch this young mans life crumble, while hes half a world away, doing his best to live up to his own ideals. Snowden comes across as thoughtful, sharp and committed to letting the public know the truth about the world in which they live, and he expects it to cost him everything. Still, when it does, the weight of all that information is clearly heavy on his shoulders, and hes juxtaposed with the audacity of the NSAs secret data collection, and the blatant lies its leaders told Congress.
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Im not the story, Edward Snowden insists to his journalist handlers in the absorbing, thrilling Citizenfour.
Too late.
Directed with deft technical touch by Laura Poitras, Citizenfour is the much anticipated documentary on how Snowden, a former contractor with the National Security Agency, leaked documents on the agencys top-secret surveillance programs to Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald, who then worked for The Guardian newspaper in London.
Given the explosive nature of Snowdens revelations, viewers will recognize at least some of these tidbits: a secret court order requiring Verizon to turn over metadata from U.S. citizens to the NSA; a clandestine operation to penetrate the servers of Google and Facebook and tap into underwater data cables; powerful software that collects and analyzes astonishing amounts of personal data in real time.
But taken together, the resulting tapestry of Big Brother overreach presented by Citizenfour still shocks.
Citizenfour is actually the code name Snowden used when he first contacted Poitras through emails that contained encrypted files.
Poitras employs clever techniques to depict the cloak-and-dagger nature of their relationship: During the films opening scenes, she reads Snowdens emails in a matter-of-fact but ominous voice-over. Later on, the Internet chats between Snowden and Poitras are typed across the movie screen, as if the conversation was unfolding at that very moment.
Poitras and Greenwald eventually meet and interview the prized source at a hotel in Hong Kong, where even the sound of a fire-alarm test is enough to make everyone in the room sufficiently paranoid.
Some of the documentarys most powerful moments occur when Poitras points her camera at Snowdens face as he watches the fallout from his leaks play out on CNN. Snowdens expressions betray not self-righteous triumph but rather genuine fear, a fear we assume pushes him to eventually seek asylum in Russia, where he remains today.
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‘Citizenfour’: a gripping look at Edward Snowden, surveillance
Since revelations about the extent of government surveillance began to flow fromformer National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden last year, the public has engaged inan ongoing debate about the role of leaks and whistleblowers in safeguarding democracy.
And according to some journalists closely associated with Snowden, that debate has spurred another leakerto come forward with what could bemore evidence of government overreach.
But now federal investigators have identified a suspect in their investigation into an alleged second source who supplied sensitive documents to an outlet led by journalists connected to Snowden reporting, according to Michael Isikoff at Yahoo News.So is this suspect"another Snowden"? Do these leakers have valuable information to offer to the public?Here on the Switch we sort through the noise.
Wait, there's a second Snowden?
Not exactly -- but there is aleaker who appears to have funneled sensitive government documents to journalists at The Intercept, the Pierre Omidyar backed site that counts Snowden journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald among its founders.
This "second source" is mentioned during the final minutesof Poitras' recent documentary on Snowden, CitizenFour.Intercept co-founding editorJeremy Scahill is briefly shown discussing the person, and thefinal sceneof the film showsGreenwald in Moscow discussing the information apparently coming from him or her with Snowden.
"The person is incredibly bold," Snowden tells him while reviewing notes presumably detailing the fresh leaks, and Greenwald replies, "It was motivated by what you did."
The second source is widely believed to be the person who supplied documents for an August storybyScahill and Ryan Devereaux that showed nearly half of the people on the U.S. government's terror-tracking database lacked connections with any known terrorist group. The classified documents in the reportreferenced datesthat wereafter Snowden was already on the run, strongly suggesting thatthey came from another individual.
And has this person been caught?
According to a Yahoo News story this week, which quoted anonymous sources, the FBIhas identified a federal contracting employee as a suspectin the leak investigation and raided the suspect's Northern Virginia home. Contacted by the Washington Post, the FBI declined to comment.
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The “second source” for Snowden reporters, explained
National Security Agency document leaker Edward Snowden, unlikely Libyan revolutionary Matthew VanDyke and prolific amateur photographer Vivian Maier are some of the subjects of films nominated Wednesday for this year's International Documentary Assn. awards.
The five films nominated in the IDA's feature category are "Citizenfour," Laura Poirtras' look at how Snowden pulled back the curtain on the NSA's massive surveillance operation; "Finding Vivian Maier," John Maloof and Charlie Siskel's chronicling of the discovery of a trove of striking photographs by a Chicago nanny; "Point and Shoot," Marshall Curry's firsthand account of one man's odyssey from Baltimore to North Africa; "The Salt of the Earth," Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado's poetic examination of the life and work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado; and "Tales of the Grim Sleeper," Nick Broomfield's investigation of an accused serial killer in South Los Angeles.
The IDA will honor Darius Clark Monroe, director of "Evolution of a Criminal," a film in which he turns the camera on himself and explores how he went from 16-year-old honor student to bank robber, with its emerging documentary filmmaker award.
Andrew Hinton and Johnny Burke, directors of "Tashi and the Monk," about a Buddhist monk running a community for orphaned and neglected children in India, will receive the Pare Lorentz award, which recognizes films focusing on environmental and social issues.
The association previously announced that it will present Robert Redford with its career achievement award, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato with its pioneer award, and Rithy Panh with its preservation and scholarship award.
The IDA will also confer awards for short film, student film, various series categories, technical achievements and more. The honors will be bestowed Dec. 5 at the 30th IDA Documentary Awards at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.
For more information and a full list of nominees, go to documentary.org/awards.
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Whistleblower: Someone said to be employed by a US government contractor is leaking secrets to the same journalists who worked with Edward Snowden.
The FBI has reportedly raided the home of an "extremely principled and brave" whistleblower working for a US contracting firm, thought to have been inspired by security contractor Edward Snowden to continue his work.
The existence of a "second Snowden" was first suspected by authorities when information about the US government's master terrorist screening database surfaced online in August, months after Snowden had already fled the country.
In an article on news site The Intercept titled "Barack Obama's Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers",Jeremy Scahilland Ryan Devereaux interpreted the information - which they attributed to a "source in the intelligence community" - to show almost half the people on terror watchlists had no known affiliation with any terrorist group.
Edward Snowden talks with Journalist Glenn Greenwald in a scene from the documentary Citizenfour. Photo: Supplied
The Intercept was co-founded by Scahill with Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, to whom Snowden previously leaked details of the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs.
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The government's frantic search for the new leaker intensified this month after scenes fromPoitras' documentary on Snowden, Citizenfour,showed Greenwald appearing to confirm the existence of new whistleblower.
Greenwald is shown meeting Snowden in Moscow, where the whistleblower has sought asylum from US criminal charges, scribbling notes about the new source on paper for fear of being overheard.
"The person is incredibly bold," Snowden said, after learning the details of the leaks. Greenwald replied: "It was motivated by what you did."
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Who is the new Edward Snowden?
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- An unidentified "second leaker," after Edward Snowden, is under investigation for disclosing sensitive intelligence secrets.
A suspect under investigation allegedly passed information regarding the U.S. government's terrorist watch list to The Intercept, a news website associated with Snowden, Yahoo News reported Monday. It added law enforcement and intelligence sources said the FBI searched the Virginia home of a government contractor who is believed to have disclosed sensitive information regarding the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment; they added a criminal investigation has begun in the matter.
Details of the watch list obtained from Snowden, published on the Intercept, were dated August 2013, months after the website first published information obtained from Snowden, a former NSA contractor. It fostered speculation of the existence of a second person providing the website with information, Yahoo News said.
U.S. Department of Justice spokesman Marc Raimondi reportedly commented, "Investigators are continuing to pursue it (the case against the alleged second leaker), but are not ready to charge yet."
Existence of a second person who allegedly turned over sensitive material to reporters was mentioned in the documentary film Citizenfour, directed by The Intercept co-founder Laura Poitras, released last week. The film reportedly shows Snowden excited to learn of a new leak in U.S. intelligence.
The film suggests the second leaker provided Snowden with information outlining "the rulebook for placing people on a variety of watch lists," The Intercept journalist Jeremy Scahill reportedly in an interview on the radio program "Democracy Now" last week. Scahill reportedly added the source is "an extremely principled and brave whistleblower," the International Business Times reported Tuesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO: "Citizenfour," a documentary about former U.S. intelligence operative Edward Snowden, garnered praise and criticism in its debut at U.S. theatres, while the U.S. remains divided between those who consider him a hero and others who call him a traitor.
The movie, directed by U.S. journalist Laura Poitras, opens with a blurred image of a tunnel filmed from a moving vehicle.
Poitras, who now lives in Berlin, explains how authorities started stopping her routinely at U.S. airports when she took on producing documentaries about government abuses, and recalled how she got an anonymous e-mail from an individual using the "citizenfour" screen name in 2013.
"You ask me why I chose you. I didn't. You did," the director, who is not seen on the screen, reads in a voiceover of one of the messages she received from Snowden.
Snowden, who obtained temporary asylum in Russia after a massive disclosure of National Security Agency's confidential and secret documents, invited Poitras and American journalist Glenn Greenwald to meet him in Hong Kong to tell them about the U.S. government's surveillance of private citizens and foreign countries.
Audiences can see how this meeting evolved between June 3 and 10, 2013, in room 1014 of the Hong Kong Mira Hotel.
"Citizenfour" describes Snowden's "courage and idealism" when confronted with the dark and malicious powers hunting him, which led The New York Times to label the documentary "biased and partisan", an opinion shared by New York Magazine critic David Edelstein.
The Times noted that a number of journalists who cover subjects such as national security and technology, like Fred Kaplan of Slate magazine, and Michael Cohen, a former Guardian reporter, have also criticised "omissions and simplifications" in Poitras's film.
Criticism aside, The Times said "Citizenfour" highlights, as few films have done so far, the invisible and ubiquitous presence of the modern state, a leviathan endowed with far-reaching coercive resources.
The film reveals that Snowden's girlfriend, who lived with him when the then contractor for the NSA gathered the documents, has joined him in Russia.
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