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Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras was nominated for an Academy Award, Independent Spirit Award and Emmy Award for My Country, My Country, a documentary about the U.S. occupation of Iraq, released theatrically by Zeitgeist Films and broadcast on P.O.V. She is currently working on a documentary about Al Quaeda and Guantanamo Bay Prison, the second in her planned trilogy, The New American Century, about America post 9/11. The third film will focus on domestic surveillance. Poitras also received numerous awards for Flag Wars, and she is currently the Artistic Director of Witness to Guantanamo, a multi-year archive project to conduct in-depth interviews with former Guantanamo prisoners.
May 22, 2009 
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