Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus on ‘Cover-Up,’ ‘Lack of Trust’ in Media, Trump’s BBC Lawsuit: ‘They Made a Mistake and Should Have Retracted It’

It took two decades for Laura Poitras, the director of Oscar winner “Citizenfour” and Oscar nominee “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” to convince Pulitzer-winning journalist Seymour Hersh to let her make a film about his career. The long-gestating project finally became a reality three years ago, with Hersh allowing Poitras and co-director Mark Obenhaus, […]