Peter Landesman

Peter Landesman
Landesman at the 2013 Deauville Film Festival
Born (1965-01-03) 3 January 1965 (age 59)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, film director, producer, journalist, novelist, painter
Known forConcussion (feature film)
The Girls Next Door (article)

Peter Landesman (born 3 January 1965) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer, journalist, novelist and painter. He wrote a number of cover stories for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and others, including investigations into global arms trafficking, sex trafficking, refugee trafficking, the Rwandan genocide, and the creation and smuggling of forged and stolen art and antiquities. He also reported from the conflicts in Kosovo, Rwanda, and Pakistan and Afghanistan post-9/11.

As a filmmaker, he wrote and directed the biographical films Parkland (2013), Concussion (2015) and Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017).