Artists must expose corruption, urges director of documentary on opioid crisis

The story of Nan Goldin, a photographer who campaigned against the Sackler family's Purdue Pharma, premieres at the Venice Film Festival

A documentary about artist Nan Goldin's fight to hold members of the Sackler family to account for the opioid crisis is a challenge to other artists" to use their power to expose corruption, its director Laura Poitras has said.

The maker of lauded films including Risk (about Wikileaks) and Citizenfour (about Edward Snowden) was premiering All the Beauty and the Bloodshed in competition at the Venice film festival on Saturday.