Date 09/04/2017 - News People
'CitizenFour' Oscar-winner Laura Poitras takes her six-year project about the WikiLeaks founder. TV's mad grab for high-brow documentary wages on, with Showtime the latest to add to its growing prestige roster. The network has secured premiere rights to Risk, the latest effort from acclaimed documentarian Laura Poitras. Like CitizenFour, Risk also focuses on the airing dirty laundry in an era of tech and political tumult ? turning the lens on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. An early cut of the film premiered during the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, but filming continued through the presidential election ? one that saw headlines highjacked when Assange's Wikileaks dumped countless emails from the Democratic National Committee.
