Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden in a scene from Snowden shot in the Mira Hotel in Hong Kong. Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden in a scene from Snowden shot in the Mira Hotel in Hong Kong.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden in a scene from Snowden shot in the Mira Hotel in Hong Kong.
Culture /  Film & TV

Oliver Stone and Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the challenges of making Snowden

With locations including Hong Kong’s Mira hotel where Edward Snowden blew the whistle on unauthorised global spying on citizens, the biopic shunned by many studios shunned is a stirring portrait of a courageous man

Knowledge |   Edward Snowden
James Mottram

Updated: 5:50pm, 5 Oct, 2016

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden in a scene from Snowden shot in the Mira Hotel in Hong Kong. Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden in a scene from Snowden shot in the Mira Hotel in Hong Kong.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden in a scene from Snowden shot in the Mira Hotel in Hong Kong.
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