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Peter Landesman is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, novelist and painter. He wrote a number of groundbreaking cover stories for the New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, 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. He wrote and directed his debut 2013 film ''Parkland'' and also a 2015 film, titled ''Concussion'', produced by Ridley Scott and to be released by Sony on Christmas Day, 2015. == Career == Landesman wrote his first fiction book ''The Raven'', which was published in 1995, for which he won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. Landesman's article ''The Girls Next Door'' about sex slaves and the trafficking of young and often underage women into and through the United States, was featured as the cover story in the January 24, 2004 issue of ''New York Times Magazine''. Daniel Radosh had a public dispute with Landesman, when Radosh challenged the facts of the article. A series of articles about the dispute by Jack Shafer in the magazine ''Slate'' turned the issue of the article's accuracy – and of the legal rights and responsibilities of blogs – into one of the most controversial topics in journalism during the first half of 2004. The details of the expose were famously - almost obsessively - challenged, and ultimately verified and justified. That piece in particular triggered the arrests of dozens of traffickers, the rescue of dozens of girls, inspired new Federal and state legislation on sex trafficking, and triggered a national conversation on sex trafficking in this country. That piece won Landesman his second Overseas Press Club Award, this one for Best Human Rights Reporting.The article was adapted into a film ''Trade'' deals with human trafficking out of Mexico and a brother's attempt to rescue his kidnapped and trafficked young sister. The film was released in 2007. Landesman wrote and directed his debut historical film ''Parkland'', based on the book ''Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy'' by author Vincent Bugliosi. The film is about the chaotic events that occurred at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. James Badge Dale and Zac Efron starred in the film, which was released in 2013. Landesman also wrote the script of a 2014 thriller film ''Kill the Messenger'', a true story about a journalist Gary Webb, based on two books Kill the Messenger by Nick Schou and Dark Alliance by Webb. The film stars Jeremy Renner and was directed by Michael Cuesta.〔 Landesman recently wrote and has directed a sports drama film ''Concussion'' starring Will Smith, about the Pittsburgh forensics pathologist who uncovered the disease, CTE, in football players, the result of years of concussions and thousands of sub-concussive blows. The pathologist, Dr. Bennet Omalu (Smith's character) makes a David v Goliath journey to tell the truth about the dangers of football in the face of withering criticism and pressure from the NFL and mainstream media. The film is scheduled to release on December 25, 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Landesman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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