Laura Poitras was already filming when Edward Snowden contacted her in 2013, making Citizenfour the only documentary to capture a mass surveillance leak in real time. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2015 and fundamentally changed public understanding of state surveillance, contributing directly to legislative reforms in multiple countries. The film itself was created under surveillance -- a meta-layer that amplifies its already extraordinary tension.
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