Wan Mahani – "CitizenFour," dokumentari yang mana mengenai bekas kontraktor NSA Edward Snowden, yg meniup wisel pada bahan rahsia NSA, yg mendedahkan rangkaian pengawasan Amerika Syarikat di seluruh DUNIA, yg telah memenangi anugerah Dokumentari Persatuan Antarabangsa untuk ciri terbaik di LA.
International Documentary Association (IDA), sebuah pertubuhan bukan keunt-ungan yg berusia 30 tahun, adalah bertujuan utk memenuhi keperluan "budaya dokumentari berkembang maju", cuba untuk berada di barisan hadapan dalam isu-isu utama yang dihadapi artis dokumentari, aktivis dan wartawan.
Dokumentari ini mempunyai siri muka-ke-muka mesyuarat antara pembikin filem yang berpangkalan di Berlin Laura Poitras, adalah yang pada Keselamatan Dalam Negeri Amerika Syarikat "senarai jam tangan", dan pemberi maklumat Snowden, yang mendapat berhubung dengan Poitras Januari lalu ketika dia bekerja di ciri mengenai pengawasan dalam pos era-9/11.
"Setiap sempadan anda menyeberang, setiap pembelian yang anda buat, setiap panggilan yang anda dail berada di tangan satu sistem yang dicapai adalah tidak terhad tetapi yang perlindungan yang tiada," Edward Snowden memberi amaran dalam treler.
Pada tahun 2013, selepas beberapa bulan-menyurat disulitkan, Poitras datang ke Hong Kong untuk memenuhi leaker berani ini. Kamera dia ditangkap "Citizenfour", aka Snowden, di bilik hotel, alih "8 hari yg menggemparkan DUNIA," di mana ayat2 yg mengagumkan beliau mula-mula diumumkan pada bulan Jun.
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Poitras katanya mulanya menyangka beliau boleh menjadi sumber tanpa nama dia tdk dpt bertemu. Dia sangat terkejut apabila dia berkata: "Saya datang ke hadapan dan saya mahu anda untuk cat sasaran di belakang saya kerana saya tidak mahu siasatan kebocoran bahawa runtuhan kehidupan orang lain"
SNOWDEN Movie picks Up top Docu AWARD . . .
"CitizenFour," a documentary about former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who blew the whistle on top secret NSA materials, exposing US surveillance network worldwide, has won the International Documentary Association top award for best feature in LA.
The International Documentary Association (IDA), a 30-year-old nonprofit organization, is dedicated to serving the needs of a "thriving documentary culture", attempting to be at the forefront of major issues confronting documentary artists, activists and journalists.
The documentary features a series of face-to-face meetings between Berlin-based filmmaker Laura Poitras, who is on the US Homeland Security “watch list”, and the whistleblower Snowden, who got in touch with Poitras last January when she was working on a feature about surveillance in the post-9/11 era.
"Every border you cross, every purchase you make, every call you dial is in the hands of a system whose reach is unlimited but whose safeguards are not," Edward Snowden warns in the trailer.
In 2013, after several months of encrypted correspondence, Poitras came to Hong Kong to meet the daredevil leaker. Her camera captured "Citizenfour", aka Snowden, in a hotel room, over the "eight days that shook the world," during which his astounding revelations were first made public in June.
Poitras said she initially expected him to be an anonymous source she never got to meet. She was highly surprised when he said: “I’m coming forward and I want you to paint a target on my back because I don’t want a leak investigation that ruins the lives of others.”
"Saya fikir Snowden mahu mengambil tanggungjawab supaya orang lain tidak mengambil kejatuhan Apabila dia memberitahu saya bahawa, saya berkata kepa-danya, 'Saya mahu berjumpa dengan anda dan saya mahu membuat penggam-baran.' Tetapi beliau berkata: 'Tidak, saya pun tak mahu menjadi cerita. 'Terdapat juga risiko kita berada di tempat yang sama pada masa yang sama.
Dia tidak mahu mengambil risiko dan kemudian hiasan arca seseorang di pintu dan semua kerja-kerja ini untuk mendapatkan maklumat yang keluar dan ia tidak keluar."
Poitras jaminan kepada beliau itu tidak akan berlaku.
"Laporan itu akan berterusan sekiranya sesuatu berlaku kepada kami berdua," katanya kepada Vanity Fair.
"I think Snowden wanted to take responsibility so others didn’t take the fall. When he told me that, I told him, ‘I want to meet you and I want to film.’ His response was: ‘No, I don’t want to be the story.’ There was also a risk of us being in the same place at the same time. He didn’t want to take risks and then someone busts in the door and all this work to get the information out and it doesn’t get out."
Poitras assured him it wouldn’t happen.
"The reporting would continue if something happened to both of us," she told Vanity Fair.
"Citizenfour" adalah sekeping yg terakhir trilogi Poitras 'yg bermula dgn Oscar penama "Negaraku, Negaraku", tentang kehidupan dan pilihan raya di Iraq semasa pekerjaan Amerika Syarikat, dan "Sumpah", kira-kira Guantanamo Bay.
Beliau berkata, sebelum dia tlh dihubungi oleh Snowden dia tlh "berhenti & mena-han setiap kali dia menyeberangi sempadan Amerika Syarikat" selama 6 tahun ber-turut-turut, dan akhirnya memutuskan untuk berpindah ke Berlin.
Poitras berkongsi Hadiah Pulitzer pd tahun ini utk peranannya dlm menerbitkan dokumen Snowden. Beliau juga tlh dianugerahkan Anugerah Keberanian Di bawah Kebakaran IDA tahun lepas untuk dia "keberanian mudah dilihat di dalam usaha mencapai kebenaran."
"Citizenfour" is the final piece of Poitras' trilogy that began with an Oscar-nominee "My Country, My Country", about life and elections in Iraq during US occupation, and "The Oath", about Guantanamo Bay.
She said that before she was contacted by Snowden she was "stopped and detained every time she crossed the US border" for six years running, and finally decided to move to Berlin.
Poitras shared a Pulitzer Prize this year for her role in publicizing the Snowden documents. She was also awarded IDA's Courage Under Fire award last year for her "conspicuous bravery in the pursuit of truth."
Awal minggu ini Edward Snowden telah menerima alternatif yang berpangkalan di Sweden dengan Hadiah Nobel, Anugerah Kehidupan yang Betul, untuk "keberanian & kemahiran beliau dlm mendedahkan setakat ini belum pernah terjadi sebelum-nya pengawasan negeri melanggar proses demokrasi asas dan hak perlembagaan."
Dalam ucapan penerimaannya disiarkan dari Moscow, Snowden berkata beliau berharap bahwa "walaupun semua kita tlh mencapainya pd thn lalu, kita semua menyedari bahwa ini hanya permulaan," katanya perkataan mendorong tepukan gemuruh.
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Edward Snowden telah diilhamkan lain pengarah Amerika Syarikat, pembikin filem veteran Oliver Stone, untuk menghidupkan ceritanya ke dalam fiksyen. Stone telah membeli hak untuk kedua-dua "The Snowden Fail," sebuah buku 2014 tentang kebocoran NSA ditulis oleh wartawan Guardian Luke Harding, & "Masa Octopus," novel berdasarkan longgar pada saga Snowden yg ditulis oleh peguam Rusia bekas kontraktor, Anatoly Kucherena. Shooting ditetapkan untuk mengambil tempat di Munich awal tahun depan.
Earlier this week Edward Snowden has received a Swedish-based alternative to the Nobel Prize, the Right Livelihood Award, for "his courage and skill in revealing the unprecedented extent of state surveillance violating basic democratic processes and constitutional rights."
In his acceptance speech broadcast from Moscow, Snowden said he hoped that "despite all we have accomplished in the last year, we all recognize that this is only the beginning," he words prompting a standing ovation.
Edward Snowden has inspired another US director, veteran filmmaker Oliver Stone, to turn his story into fiction. Stone has purchased the rights to both “The Snowden Files,” a 2014 book about the NSA leaks written by Guardian journalist Luke Harding, and “Time of the Octopus,” a novel based loosely on the Snowden saga penned by the former contractor’s Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena. Shooting is set to take place in Munich early next year.
