Reality Winner has been out of prison since June 2021, but she’s still under lockdown. The whistleblower’s travel is confined to the Southern District of Texas and she must abide by a 10 p.m. curfew. If all goes according to plan — and it really, really hasn’t for most of her hellish ordeal — her probation will be lifted Nov. 24. And right now, she’s cautiously optimistic. The 31-year-old is hard at work on her memoir, was recently the subject of the critically acclaimed HBO movie Reality with actress Sydney Sweeney playing her, and next year will bring Winner, a more expansive film on her life starring Emilia Jones of CODA fame. She’s become a cause célèbre of sorts in Hollywood, yet is still coming to terms with her years of torment at the hands of the government.
Her story is also captured in a new documentary, Reality Winner, directed by Sonia Kennebeck and hitting digital and on-demand services Oct. 31. The nonfiction film chronicles the former Air Force linguist and NSA contractor’s decision to smuggle a five-page classified document out of the offices of Pluribus in her pantyhose that revealed Russian attempts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election via a cyberattack on a U.S. voting software supplier and spear-phishing emails sent to over 100 local election officials in the days leading up to the Nov. 8 election. Winner mailed the classified material to The Intercept who published their piece on the leaked documents two days after FBI agents visited...
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