Citizenfour

In 2013, a filmmaker and a journalist met with a man who had evidence of illegal surveillance by the NSA, leading to revelations about covert operations, global debates on privacy, and a discussion about the ethics of government surveillance. Citizenfour is a 2014 English-language Documentary Biography motion picture starring Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum, Ewen Macaskill, Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras. HBO Films in association with Participant Media and Praxis Films. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky. Citizenfour is written by Kirsten Johnson, Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras and Katy Scoggin and it is directed by Laura Poitras. Radius-TWC acquired the distribution rights for the film. Citizenfour was released on 17th October 2014 and takes a screen time of 113 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released and became successful at box office. Citizenfour was made on a budget of $1 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $3 million. Cinematography was done by Kirsten Johnson, Trevor Paglen and Katy Scoggin and editing by Mathilde Bonnefoy At the 2015 Oscar Awards It won an award for Best Documentary, Feature.