Reality Winner Film Screened at the Berlin International Film Festival
KINGSVILLE - Reality Winner, the Kingsville native who was arrested when she printed a classified report and mailed the documents to The Intercept, is the subject of a new film titled, Reality.
Reality was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival and starred Sydney Sweeny, who is known for her role on HBO’s Euphoria and The White Lotus. Director Tina Satter adapted her 2021 Broadway play Is This A Room? to showcase Winner’s verbatim FBI interrogation by using it as part of the script.
IndieWire writer Steph Green says that “by re-creating real-life audio and photographs, Satter work feels almost documentarian. At the core of the film’s strange and propulsive appeal is Winner herself, who is both an ordinary American and an extraordinary enigma.”
Kingsville Native Reality Winner Freed from Prison After 4 Years — South Texas Community News
Winner pleaded guilty in 2018 to leaking classified National Security Agency information on Russia's alleged efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. She was found guilty of violating the U.S. Espionage Act and sentenced to five years in prison at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.
In 2021 Winner was released for good behavior and is on probation in Kingsville until November 2024.