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Caitlin Kleiboer is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and editor based in Colorado.
She films and edits documentary for international health and human rights organizations, producing work across Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Kenya, and Ethiopia alongside in-country teams and community health workers. She has spent much of her career developing how these organizations approach visual ethics, consent, and patient representation.
Before that, Kleiboer filmed and edited feature-length and television documentary with Sender Films. Credits include Dawn Wall, which won the Audience Award at the SXSW Film Festival and Best Feature-Length Mountain Film at BANFF, and Showdown at Horseshoe Hell, which won People's Choice at BANFF. She also edited Living Galapagos, which received a People's Voice Webby Award. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Fast Company, and The Washington Post.
Kleiboer studied photography at the University of Michigan, graduating magna cum laude, then earned an MA in Visual Communication and a Master of Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she also taught the graduate course in multimedia storytelling. Between her undergraduate and graduate work, she served with AmeriCorps VISTA.
She photographs across digital and film, including medium and large format. She is currently working on a large project digitizing and organizing her father's archive of negatives spanning several decades.
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