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Laura Poitras film spotlights activist photographer Goldin
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Nan Goldin, left, and director Laura Poitras pose for photographers at the photo call of the film 'All The Beauty and the Bloodshed' during the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. - photo by Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP
VENICE, Italy (AP) — When filmmaker Laura Poitras went to meet American photographer Nan Goldin about a project to document her protests against museums accepting money from the Sackler family, Goldin was slightly worried. “My worry when she came on was that I didn’t have any state secrets to share and I wasn’t important enough for this,” Goldin said Saturday in Venice. The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind the Edward Snowden documentary “Citizenfour” was already in on the prospect of “the present-day horror story of a billionaire family knowingly creating an epidemic, and then funneling money into museums in exchange for tax write-offs and naming galleries,” she said.