Gladys Bensimon was born in Caracas, Venezuela.

Gladys Bensimon is a writer/director and President of HBR Production
Company, a multilingual film and video production company located in
New Jersey. She has worked in a wide range of genres including
commercials, features, animated short films, and documentaries. Her first
published book,
Paha Sapa: Black Hills was written as a feature film and
then adapted by Bensimon and novelist Sheila Martin Berry into a book
geared to a young audience. Paha Sapa: Black Hills is available at
Barnes and Noble.com, Amazon.com, Borders.com, etc.
 

Bensimon has won several awards for her bold documentaries that she
has written and directed:
Domestic Violence: the Legal Process,
winner of the 1993 Media Award in Television, and
Silent Victims
Speak
, winner of the 1997 Media Award Competition, from the National
Council on Family Relations. Silent Victims was aired on PBS and is
currently under distribution by Global Video LLC.
Roll Call,  an hour-long
docudrama funded by the US Department of Justice, was designed to
educate New Jersey police officers on domestic violence issues. The film
has been distributed to every police academy in New Jersey, Texas,
California, New Hampshire, the Royal Police Academy in New Zeeland,
and France.

Bensimon has a Master's Degree in Media Studies and Film from The
New School University, New York City, and a Bachelor's Degree in Mass
Communications and TV Production from the Andres Bello University,
Caracas, Venezuela.   
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