[weegee]

Maybe not but it goes a long ways. And they’d honored the passing of Leni Riefenstahl at the Oscars among those who’d passed away in the previous year.

She may have made other films in her life but the only 2 that are shown in film school are both Nazi propaganda films and shown as exemplary technique.

[Borges]

She was included in the Obit Montage. Her influence goes beyond propaganda films. She virtually invented sports photography and the pantheism of her 1920s Nature/ mountain climing films are an influence on Disney features like Bambi and the deer hunting sequence in....The Deerhunter.