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Lisa Barcy
Woman Without a Past
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Jesse Seay
Likes to Do Other Things
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MakeOut Club
Grad Screening @ Busker
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Film, Video and New Media Faculty
Ruth Leitman, Instructor FVNM
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About:
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 verit´ 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.
CV summary:
Instructor; Film, Video, and New Media (2002). BFA, 1984, University of the Arts,
Philadelphia. Director/producer of independent films. Exhibitions/Screenings: Whitney Biennial; International
Documentary Filmfestival, Amsterdam; Women in the Director's Chair. Awards: Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship;
Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media; Hamptons International Film Festival Documentary Feature Jury Prize;
City of Atlanta Mayor's Fellowship in Film; Georgia Council for the Arts grants.
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