Edward Snowden documentary to make its premiere at New York Film Festival

NEW YORK, N.Y. – A documentary about Edward Snowden is a late addition to the New York Film Festival.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced Tuesday that Laura Poitras’ “Citizenfour” will premiere Oct. 10 as part of the annual festival’s main slate.

Poitras is a journalist and documentarian whom Snowden first contacted about leaking thousands of documents that revealed the Nation Security Agency’s collection of Americans’ phone and email records.

Poitras shared in the Pulitzer Prize given to The Washington Post and The Guardian for the NSA revelations.

In an interview with The Associated Press this year, Poitras said she was editing the film in Berlin because she didn’t feel she could protect her source material from being seized by the government inside the U.S.

“Citizenfour” opens in theatres Oct. 24.