Suggests: Laura Poitras on Documenting Seymour Hersh in COVER-UP

Celebrated filmmaker Laura Poitras joins Sundance Collab for a live, online conversation about her explosive new documentary COVER-UP.

COVER-UP, which Poitras directed with Mark Obenhaus, traces the work of America’s preeminent investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh. Hersh has exposed government corruption and abuses of power since the late-1960s, from the wars in Vietnam and Iraq to the present day. His work helped expose the My Lai massacre in 1969, the CIA’s domestic spying program in 1974, and the United States torture of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004. COVER-UP marks the first feature documentary about Hersh and his work, which remains massively influential (and at times controversial) to this day. 

Among the most acclaimed documentary filmmakers of her generation, Poitras is best known as the director of CITIZENFOUR, a high-risk film that exposed the U.S. government’s global mass surveillance programs. CITIZENFOUR won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2015.…