Rita Leistner

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Rita Leistner is a Canadian photographer and filmmaker. [1] She is most noted for her 2021 documentary film Forest for the Trees , for which she was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022. [2]

She was active as a photojournalist in the 2000s, most notably covering the Iraq War. [3] Some of her war photography was included in the 2006 book Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq, alongside photography by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Winnie Lee, "Up Close and On the Ground With Canada’s Intrepid Tree Planters". Atlas Obscura , August 18, 2021.
  2. ↑ Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada , February 15, 2022.
  3. ↑ Sarah Hampson, "'I own nothing but cameras'". The Globe and Mail , June 5, 2004.
  4. ↑ Charlie Fidelman, "The Iraq war, up close". Montreal Gazette , January 14, 2006.


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