Peter Landesman

Born 1963 · American screenwriter and film producer

Peter Landesman 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 from the conflicts in Kosovo, Rwanda, and Pakistan and Afghanistan post-9/11.

Peter Landesman, in order

1. 2007 Trade: wrote · directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner · critics 34%, audiences 74% · streaming on Prime Video, Prime Video (free), Tubi
2. 2013 Parkland: directed, wrote
3. 2014 Kill the Messenger: wrote · directed by Michael Cuesta
4. 2015 Concussion: directed, wrote · critics 58%, audiences 74% · streaming on Netflix
5. 2017 Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House: directed, wrote · critics 34%, audiences 41% · streaming on Prime Video
6. 2017 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (TV movie): wrote · directed by George C. Wolfe
7. 2020 Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (TV series): produced
8. Eleven Days: directed, wrote