JEFFREY BROWN:
Beginning with encrypted e-mails and then in Hong Kong, Snowden met with and told his story to journalist Glenn Greenwald, then with The Guardian newspaper, and filmmaker Laura Poitras, the director of the Oscar-nominated documentary.
I spoke to the two earlier this afternoon.
Welcome to both of you.
Laura Poitras, let me ask you, what did you want the film to do that the steady drumbeat of news revelations could not do? Why a film?
LAURA POITRAS, Director, "Citizenfour": Well, as a document filmmaker, what I try to do is — it has all the components of journalism. It has to be truthful and factual, but really it's about saying something about bigger issues.
So, for me, this was looking at the story both of the NSA, but like what — individual stories of courage, not just Edward Snowden, but William Binney, other whistle-blowers who are coming forward. And it's also very much a film looking at journalism. So, as a documentary filmmaker, I want to make something that can be seen and be interesting today and in 10 years from now.
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