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September 12, 2022

Laura Poitras's Documentary on Opioid Crisis Wins Top Prize at Venice Film Festival
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In film news, Laura Poitras's new documentary, "All the Beauty and the
Bloodshed," has won the top prize, the Golden Lion, at the Venice Film
Festival. The documentary focuses on the photographer Nan Goldin and her
campaign against the Sackler family, who made billions selling Oxy
Contin, which helped spark the opioid epidemic. After Nan Goldin became
addicted to Oxy Contin, she founded the group P.A.I.N. - Prescription
Addiction Intervention Now - and she organized protests at art museums
funded by the Sackler family. Laura Poitras spoke on Saturday after her
film became only the second documentary to win the top prize at the
Venice Film Festival.

Laura Poitras: "I've known a lot of brave and courageous people in my
life, but I've never met anyone like Nan, somebody who could decide to
take on the billionaire Sackler family, which is ruthless and
responsible for countless deaths and so much bloodshed, and decide to,
like, take this family down, along with her organization, P.A.I.N."



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