Risk Page #6

Synopsis: Filmed over six years, Risk (2016) is a character study that collides with a high stakes election year and its controversial aftermath. Cornered in a tiny building for half a decade, Julian Assange is undeterred even as the legal jeopardy he faces threatens to undermine the organization he leads and fracture the movement he inspired. Capturing this story, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Laura Poitras
Production: NEON
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
TV-MA
Year:
2016
86 min
$756
121 Views


just took your shirt off,

And you're at home,

you know?

You should just be in your-

In that-

like something like that,

Like a dirty f***ing t-shirt

like a rebel.

Not in that suit.

- With a stain on it.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- What's your

favorite kind of food?

- Well, I went to malaysia-

well, first of all,

First of all,

let's not pretend for a moment

That I'm a normal person.

I am obsessed

with our political struggle.

I'm not a normal person.

- Right.

I just would really like

For you to tell me

how you feel,

Because I've been

trying to get that out of you.

- But, okay,

why does it matter how I feel?

I mean, who gives a damn?

I don't-see,

I don't care how I feel.

- Do you ever feel

like just f***ing crying?

- No.

- Never?

- Never.

- Even when you're happy?

You love your mom?

- Yeah.

How about your dad?

- Uh, my dad is

much more abstract, so...

- No.

Nothing like you, then.

I'm just kidding.

Who-who is after you,

mr. Assange?

- Formally, there are

more than 12 United States

Intelligence organizations,

investigative organizations,

That are...

- What are they?

- After us.

So, I mean, those include,

Most importantly,

the fbi,

The department of justice,

The central intelligence agency,

The department of defense,

And the subsets

of the department of defense,

Centcom,

sections of the u. S. Army,

Including cciu,

The u. S. Army's computer crimes

investigative unit.

Those include, in australia,

various-

- It's a series of institutions.

- So there-

And, of course,

the state department,

The diplomatic security service.

Here,

within the united kingdom,

The home office,

the extradition squad,

The serious organized crime-

- So basically, a whole bunch

of f***in' people in america.

Now what about the rest

of the world?

- So, in the rest of the world,

there's,

The australian government

started up

What you call the "whole

of government" investigation

That included the internal

intelligence agency,

The external intelligence

agency access

Acis,

the attorney general-

- Okay.

- The department of-

- So we've got

the u. S., australia-

- The australian

federal police...

Where else?

- The swedish

prosecution authorities.

Swedish prosecution.

- That includes

the foreign ministry run by-

Built some aspects of the-

It's become

a national issue now.

- So a lot of people.

- Well, there's more.

A lot of systems.

- I mean,

there's the scientologists.

- There's a lot of friends of-

- the scientologists.

- There's a lot

of friends of friends-

- There's people in kenya.

There's people in-

- A lot of friends of friends

doing things

To put you in this position

that you are now in, correct?

Sure.

seven, six, five,

Four, three, two, one.

Seven, six, five, four,

Three, two, one.

Good. Quicker.

Good.

Good. Quick.

That's good.

Go.

- I've been contacted

by an anonymous source.

He claims to have documents

about illegal nsa spying.

I wonder if the fbi is trying

to entrap me, jake, or julian.

Julian would be

the likely target.

I haven't told him

about the source.

- Okay. Um, I need you to move

the camera and stop filming.

Give me that bag.

29-year-old edward snowden

Blew open those secrets

by leaking

Unprecedented details

of top secret

- Julian contacted me

after I published the video.

He said snowden isn't safe

in hong kong.

I told him I can't assist

with ed's asylum.

The risks are too high.

When they investigate

this leak,

They'll create a narrative

to say it was all a conspiracy.

They won't understand

what really happened.

That we all kept each other

in the dark.

Breaking news this hour.

Wikileaks claims

one of its legal advisers

Accompanying snowden after

the whistleblower organization

- Reportedly has snowden

scheduled to land

In the russian capital

within minutes.

- As you may have heard,

there is a cia agent

Who has revealed

a lot of information,

And he is now trapped in the-

The airport in moscow.

We've managed to get him

out of hong kong,

But when he landed

in the moscow airport,

The american government

had cancelled his passport

To try and grab him.

We are trying to arrange

a private jet

To take him from moscow

to ecuador

Or perhaps maybe venezuela,

Or maybe iceland-

Countries where

he would be safe,

But there isn't much time.

This is the problem.

We need to raise

the money for the jet.

Well, there are quotes

coming back at somewhere

Between $120,000 and $300,000

For the private flight.

And one of our people

is accompanying him.

- Today, we've had information

from the official

Russian news service,

interfax,

That at the moscow airport,

edward snowden applied

For asylum there with the help

of sarah harrison.

- The british national says

that her lawyers

Have advised her

not to return to the uk,

Because she risks arrest under

the terrorism act.

- Not guilty

on aiding the enemy,

But specification 1, charge 2,

on wanton publication guilty,

Afghan war diary on espionage,

guilty;

Spec 8 on the gitmo files,

guilty-

Which is ten years max;

Cablegate, guilty-

ten years;

Reykjavik cable-

two years max, guilty.

God.

It goes on.

10, 20, 30...

90, 100.

102, 112...

Yeah, so far,

142 years,

Maximum possible sentence.

- I spoke to julian

for the first time in months.

He is furious

and feels betrayed.

He wants me to give him

nsa documents,

And accused me

of dividing the community

By not publishing

with wikileaks.

I tell him

I can't be his source.

I don't tell him

that I don't trust him.

He's still yelling

when I hang up the phone.

- Testing, testing.

Okay.

Okay, so, um, there's a

filmmaker named laura poitras.

Laura poitras is known

through the defense community

As a documentary filmmaker

who is anti-u. S.

So she's known in the

wiki community, the anti-u. S.,

Anti-government-monitoring

community.

When we were pursuing snowden,

we went balls to the wall

To try to get this guy.

We were able to revoke his visa

The day before he boarded

the plane for moscow.

So they get the guy

on the plane

And he ends up in moscow.

And therefore, then,

at that point,

We realized, you know,

we lost him,

We're probably not

gonna get him back.

- nachste station,

hauptbahnhof...

Hi.

How's it going?

- Mm-hmm.

Hmm.

- It-it looks

almost certain now

That it's gonna be

hillary versus trump.

- Yeah.

- Basically it will be-

Will be hillary versus trump

unless one of them

Has a stroke or is assassinated.

- Yeah.

- Uh...

So that's quite a bad outcome

in both directions.

We have-we have

a definite warmonger

In the case of hillary,

who's gunning for us.

- Yeah.

- Uh, and in the case of trump,

We have someone

who's extremely unpredictable.

- Yes.

- I've discovered quite a lot

Of interesting stuff

in relation to hillary.

Mm-hmm.

- Unfortunately for trump,

there's-

There's not so many known

interesting documents.

And you'd think with his

business ventures all over,

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Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras (; born February 2, 1964) is an American director and producer of documentary films. She lives in New York City.Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden, while My Country, My Country received a nomination in the same category in 2007. She won the 2013 George Polk Award for "national security reporting" related to the NSA disclosures. The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Barton Gellman contributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post.She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, 2012 MacArthur Fellow, the creator of Field of Vision, and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. more…

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