Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #51. Laura Poitras’ Untitled Surveillance Documentary

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Director: Laura Poitras
Writer: Laura Poitras
Producer: Laura Poitras
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

We wonder if Laura Poitras ever gets any quality shut eye as the documentarian and journalist not only works the docu-form but has become a school of hard knocks reporter recently joining the non-film project in the brand-new online media journal, The Intercept. She’ll likely be covering all bases for the final installment in her proposed “New American Century” trilogy; the currently untitled docu on surveillance would follow My Country, My Country and The Oath.

Gist: The third part will focus on how the War on Terror increasingly focuses on Americans through surveillance, covert activities and attacks on whistleblowers.

Release Date: We were thinking that this might break into the Sundance/Berlin line-up and while that didn’t materialize, Poitras has been active elsewhere.

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Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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