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Amnesty Edmonton and Metro Cinema presents Citizenfour
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Starts: Saturday, February 21
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Ends: Saturday, February 21
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"Know that every border you cross, every purchase you make, every call you dial, every cell phone tower you pass, friend you keep, site you visit, and subject line you type, is in the hands of a system whose reach is unlimited, but whose safeguards are not."
The Amnesty International Edmonton chapter invites you to a screening of the critically acclaimed documentary Citizenfour about Edward Snowden and the NSA leaks that showed the world the extent of US government and global surveillance, and its implications for privacy and freedom. The film was recently nominated for a 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary, and this screening will be the night before the Oscars.
From the film's website:
"Citizenfour is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Poitras had already been working on a film about surveillance for two years when Snowden contacted her, using the name “Citizenfour,” in January 2013. He reached out to her because he knew she had long been a target of government surveillance, stopped at airports numerous times, and had refused to be intimidated. When Snowden revealed he was a high-level analyst driven to expose the massive surveillance of Americans by the NSA, Poitras persuaded him to let her film.
Citizenfour not only shows you the dangers of governmental surveillance—it makes you feel them. After seeing the film, you will never think the same way about your phone, email, credit card, web browser, or profile, ever again."
Join us in the lobby before and after the film, where we will have a table set up with letters to sign for political prisoners worldwide who have been jailed for exercising their rights to freedom of speech and expression, as well as more information about Amnesty if you're interested in what we do. Please invite your friends and come say hi at the table!
Critical praise (97% on Rotten Tomatoes):
"The stuff of Orwellian nightmares...it plays like the greatest paranoid thriller since 'All The President's Men'." - Indiewire
"If you think Snowden is a traitor, you should probably see it. If you think he's a hero, you should probably see it. If you haven't made up your mind--well, you get the idea." - Boston Globe
"Palpably electric...The action is perilously real and the camera isn't only capturing a historical event, it's part of the making of it." - The Washington Post
"The movie of the century...one of the most absorbing things I've ever seen." - rogerebert.com
Tickets:
$12 adults
$9 students/seniors (with valid ID)
If you can't make the screening that night, there are a few other screening times at Metro:
Tuesday, February 17 at 9:30 pm
Friday, February 20 at 9:30 pm
Monday, February 23 at 9:15 pm
For more information about Citizenfour: https://citizenfourfilm.com/
For more information about Amnesty Edmonton:
edmontonamnesty.org
Event Location
Garneau Theatre
8712 109 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2L5