Laura Poitras (Boston, 1964) lives and works in New York. After studying at the San Francisco Art Institute, she went on to specialize in liberal arts and the media at the New School for Social Research. She made her directorial debut with the short Exact Fantasy (1996), followed by Flag Wars (2003) and O' Say Can You See? (2004). She is currently working on a documentary about the GuantÁ¡namo military prison.