Peter Landesman

Writing · Born 1963-04-11 · age 63 · New York City, New York, USA

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 on the conflicts in Kosovo, Rwanda,  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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Landesman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.