Rita Leistner

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]

  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.