NY Cinema Lets Teens Watch Snowden Documentary Despite Age Restrictions

© AP Photo / Evan Agostini/InvisionDirector Laura Poitras, center, accepts the "Best Documentary" award for the film "CITIZENFOUR" at The Independent Film Project's 24th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street.
Director Laura Poitras, center, accepts the Best Documentary award for the film CITIZENFOUR at The Independent Film Project's 24th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street. - Sputnik International
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Popular New York cinema IFC Center has decided that teenagers are mature enough to watch a documentary about Edward Snowden without guardians.

MOSCOW, December 11 (Sputnik) – IFC Center, a major independent cinema in New York, has decided not to ban US teenagers from watching a documentary about the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden despite age restrictions.

US whistleblower Edward Snowden said Wednesday that he no longer has access to any classified information and that all of it has been provided to journalists. - Sputnik International
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"While the MPAA [Motion Picture Association of America] has assigned CITIZENFOUR [documentary] a rating of R, recommending that no one under 17 be admitted without a parent or guardian, IFC Center feels that the film is appropriate viewing for mature adolescents. Accordingly, we will admit high school-age patrons at our discretion," IFC Center said on its website.

The documentary is based on the recordings of the first meeting between the director of the movie Laura Poitras, Snowden and other journalists in Hong Kong in June 2013.

Poitras started receiving encrypted emails from Edward Snowden at the beginning of 2013. Identifying himself as Citizen Four, he informed the filmmaker about illegal surveillance practices carried out by US intelligence agencies.

Citizenfour, a documentary about the NSA spying scandal, was premiered in the United States in October and awarded "Best Feature" by the International Documentary Association (IDA) in December.

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