Edward Snowden, subject of the documentary Citizenfour. Photo credit: Laura Poitras / Praxis Films [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Celebrate Open Access Week with York University Libraries by attending a free public screening of the Oscar-winning film Citizenfour. The film depicts the disclosure by Edward Snowden of NSA spying secrets to the film’s producer Laura Poitras, as well as journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill. The documents leaked by NSA insider Snowden to the media led to an international scandal concerning the extent and illegality of the NSA’s surveillance programs. This film expands on the themes of Open Access Week by exploring what it means to pursue radical openness on matters of intense public interest in the face of government opposition.

The screening will take place on Wednesday, October 28 from 2:30 – 5:00 in the Sound and Moving Image Library screening room on the 1st floor of Scott Library.

Open Access Week is an annual international celebration of the principles of the Open Access movement. The Open Access movement asserts that the public has the right to freely access research results online, particularly research that has been produced with public funds. York University Libraries supports Open Access publishing in a number of ways, including through the York University Open Access Author Fund and institutional memberships with various Open Access publishers. For more information, please visit the York University Libraries’ Open Access Publishing Toolkit.