About
Leah Goudsmit was born in Amsterdam in 1985, but moved to the US at 18 to study both history and film at Brandeis University. After University Leah decided to integrate her interest in social studies with film, and work in the documentary field. She has specialized in editing documentary with a commercial feel, working for Timberland, Toyota, NRG Energy, on corporate responsibility pieces, and editing trailers for feature documentaries. In 2015, Leah edited the film Kombit:The Cooperative, which premiered at SXSW Eco the same year. Leah just finished a short experimental documentary on artists on the north pole, called Don't leave anything behind, and and the feature documentary Spirit of Discovery on the oceanographer Walter Munk that she also produced premiered at the San Diego Film Festival in 2017. Currently she is finishing up the feature documentary Sewing Change, a film on the garment industry