Thursday, May 27, 2010
Q&A: LAURA POITRAS, Producer/Director/Cinematographer
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Podcast Episode Summary
Aired 05/23/10
Producer-Director LAURA POITRAS's previous documentary MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY on life in occupied Iraq was nominated for an Academy Award. Her new film, THE OATH tells the story of two brothers-in-law who became Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard and driver respectively. One ended up in Guantanamo and before the US Supreme Court. The other driving a cab in Yemen.
After ten years as a chef in upscale restaurants, LAURA POITRAS made a radical change in life, to become a documentary filmmaker. Her 2003 film FLAG WARS. was nominated for an Emmy and an Independent Spirit Award and, and awarded a Peabody. Then, working alone in Iraq for over eight months, Poitras created an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. The film My Country, My Country was nominated for an Academy Award. Her latest film, THE OATH is the second in a planned trilogy to capture the human side of our confrontation with radical Islam on the ground in Iraq, in Yemen, in Guantanamo and here in the US.
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