Peter Landesman

Writing • 1963-04-11 • New York City, New York, USA

Peter Landesman (born January 3, 1965) is an American filmmaker, journalist, 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).