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]
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