Through her company Ruthless Films, she has directed six feature length documentary films including Wildwood, NJ, Alma, Lipstick & Dynamite, and Tony & Janina’s American Wedding. Leitman’s films have received funding from Rockefeller Foundation, Paul Robeson Fund, TribeCa Film Institute, Fledgling Fund and Illinois Humanities Council. Her work has been screened at the DGA, The Whitney Biennial, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, HotDocs, TriBeCa and SXSW. Currently, Leitman is directing a segment of Kartemquin Films’ new documentary series for Al Jazeera America, Hard Earned. She is in development on a fiction TV series based on her documentary feature Lipstick & Dynamite.