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Ruth Leitman was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1984. In her first documentary WILDWOOD, NEW JERSEY (1994), teen girls reflect on lost virginity, life's impossible dreams and fist fights. It screened at SXSW, Pacific Film Archive, Dallas Video Festival, Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema and the Atlanta Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award. Leitman received a 1997 Rockefeller Fellowship for ALMA (1998). A Southern Gothic documentary film in the story-telling tradition of Tennessee Williams and Flannery O'Connor, ALMA is an unflinching examination of family secrets, love and abuse. ALMA has been included in the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, International Documentary Film Festival Munich, Women in the Director's Chair, HOT DOCS!, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Australia Documentary Conference and won the Documentary Feature Jury Prize at the Hamptons International Film Festival. It screened at the Directors Guild of America in New York City and The Whitney Biennial 2000 and was broadcast on TV Ontario and Channel Four Finland. Leitman completed the documentary film, WELCOME TO ANATEVKA (2001), a verité film that follows a group of adults with developmental disabilities staging a musical. Her fiction projects include a feature screenplay, entitled THE WIND CRIES MARY and recently completed script THE PIN-DOWN GIRL, a girl wrestling story, set in the 1950s. Leitman teaches documentary filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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