Rita Leistner

Rita Leistner. Cinematographer: Forest for the Trees. Rita Leistner is a multi-award-winning photographer, writer and filmmaker. She is known for her ability to build close personal bonds with her subjects and for creating bespoke conceptual and aesthetic approaches to the wide variety of subjects she tackles-soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, women wrestlers, a women's psychiatric ward in war-time Baghdad, tree planters in Canada, etc. Her work has been published in...