Citizenfour Trailer

A mysterious message comes to an American journalist, hinting at a global intelligence network tracking the moves of every person by any means. Laura Poitras, an award winning journalist and documentary film maker, was one of three summoned to Hong Kong to meet with the illusive whistle-blower, who's message came with the conformation that if anything was leaked prematurely, he would surely be implemented and face terrible consequences. The journalist met with the man and began gathering his information which would mark a breakthrough in the world of journalism. The man's name was Edward Joseph Snowden.

'Citizenfour' was the alias Snowden first used when contacting Poitras and serves as the film's title. A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the meetings between Poitras and Snowden in first person. The film includes the encrypted emails sent to Poitras by Snowden while she was busy already working on a film about surveillance in the post-9/11 world, narrated by the director. The film was brought to us by executive producer Steven Soderbergh (The 'Oceans 11' trilogy), and made its first appearance at the October 2014 New York Film Festival. It is scheduled to be released in the US on 24th October, 2014.