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.
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.
| Award-winning director Gladys Bensimon |
About the Editor
Drew Oberholtzer is a freelance editor living and working in NYC.
Production Crew
Carla Abbax, PA
David Abecasis, PA
Ellen Parvett, Sound
Hannah Redmond, Webmaster & Copy Editor
Marco Esquivel, AC
Pablo Rojas, AC
Drew Oberholtzer is a freelance editor living and working in NYC.
Production Crew
Carla Abbax, PA
David Abecasis, PA
Ellen Parvett, Sound
Hannah Redmond, Webmaster & Copy Editor
Marco Esquivel, AC
Pablo Rojas, AC
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