We don’t get that many Oscar nods here in Hong Kong, so when we do, we’re going to shout about it.
This year’s tenuous link is not too tenuous at all, actually – Edward Snowden documentary “Citizenfour” has won the Oscar for Best Documentary. Whoop, go HK!
The film documents journalist Laura Poitras’s June 2013 Hong Kong meeting with the former CIA computer geek, who leaked previously unseen documents about how America’s National Security Agency snoops on its citizens (and basically the whole world).
Talking about the Academy Award, Snowden admitted that he was reluctant to let Poitras film the encounter at first, but is glad he was persuaded into it. Thank god for pushy journalists.
“The result is a brave and brilliant film,” Snowden said according to the SCMP, adding that he hopes audiences will be inspired by the message that ordinary people “can change the world.”
Check out the trailer and download the doc, legally of course (lol):
