VERITAS AWARD to Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
Co-presentation with New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT)

COVER-UP

SUN, 12/7, 2:00pm, 117 min
SAG HARBOR CINEMA

Directors Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus in attendance for Q&A

Directors: Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus
Producers: Yoni Golijov, Mark Obenhaus, Laura Poitras, Olivia Streisand
Editors: Peter Bowman, Amy Foote, Laura Poitras
Cinematographer: Mia Cioffi Henry

A political thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. It is both a portrait of a relentless journalist and an indictment of institutional violence and the cycles of impunity in the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. A film which couldn’t be more relevant today.

Laura Poitras is an Oscar and Pulitzer Prize-winning filmmaker and journalist. Her most recent film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, only the second documentary to win that top prize. Her film Citizenfour won an Academy Award for Best Documentary and her film My Country was nominated for an Oscar. She is a founding board member of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Mark Obenhaus is a producer, director, and writer of documentary television and film. His work has been recognized by five national Emmys and many journalism awards. Since 1991 he has been associated with ABC News. In 1997, he was executive producer of Dangerous World: The Kennedy Years, a special based in part on the reporting of Seymour Hersh.