Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras is an Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winning filmmaker and journalist.

Her most recent film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival where it won the Golden Lion, only the second documentary to win the top prize in the festival’s history. The film was nominated for an Academy Award, won an Independent Spirit Award, and was named best documentary of the year by New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics.

Her production company Praxis Films is based in New York City and Berlin.