Yes, that's really her name: in the upcoming docudrama Reality, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last week to rave reviews, Sydney Sweeney will play the election interference whistleblower Reality Winner, who in 2018 was convicted for leaking intelligence documents to news site The Intercept.
Tina Satter directs with a script adapted from her own stage play of the events, Is This a Room, with dialogue taken verbatim from Winner's interrogation by the FBI. Acclaimed after its festival debut, Reality currently boasts an 87 out of 100 aggregate score on the review website Metacritic, with a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Here's everything we know about Reality.
Once an enlisted member of the US Air Force and translator for the National Security Agency, Reality Winner was given the longest prison sentence ever imposed for an intelligence leak, after she leaked a report about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections. Now released from prison, Winner was sentenced to five years and three months in a federal institution.
The news organisation to whom Winner leaked the documents, The Intercept, was publicly blamed for her being caught, with experts suggesting that the outlet's reckless reportage contributed to her exposure. Co-founding editor Glenn Greenwald called Winner's identification by the FBI a “deeply embarrassing newsroom failure” that was the product of “speed and recklessness,” with an internal review...
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