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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