For most Oscar nominees, the weeks before the February 22 ceremony are a whirlpool of stress. When former National Security Agency (NSA) consultant Edward Snowden, who revealed the massive scope of US intelligence surveillance, contacted the filmmaker, she found her life turned into a spy novel. The most risky time was when she went to meet him in Hong Kong, with journalist Glenn Greenwald, the second person contacted by Snowden. "I didn't carry a cell phone for a year after I started reporting because I didn't want it to start broadcasting my location," she told AFP in an interview in Los Angeles.



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