EXCLUSIVE: Actress Sydney Sweeney earned praise for her performance as whistleblower Reality Winner in the recent fact-driven HBO drama Reality. But in the new documentary Reality Winner, audiences will get to hear from the woman herself who was hit with the longest prison sentence ever handed down for leaking a secret U.S. intelligence document.

Sonia Kennebeck (National Bird) directed the Codebreaker Films production, which will premiere at IFC Center in New York on October 11 and at Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles on October 18. Grasshopper Films will release Reality Winner on VOD on October 31 (Separately, Winner will participate in a Q&A at a special screening at Alamo Drafthouse in Corpus Christi, Texas on Saturday, Oct. 7). The documentary offers a first-hand account of a case that gained national attention after Winner was arrested for exposing a classified assessment of Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

“Filmed over five years, this is the only documentary about the young NSA whistleblower Reality Winner, who exposed Russian interference in U.S. elections and went to jail for it,” notes a synopsis about the film. “With exclusive access to Reality Winner and the media outlet involved in her arrest, this film also reveals FBI evidence never before released.”

We have your first look at the film in the trailer above.

“I first read about Reality’s arrest shortly after it was announced in June 2017,” Kennebeck said in a statement...

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