Ric Esther Bienstock

Ric Esther Bienstock
Born Montreal, QC, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Occupation Canadian Film Director & Producer
Awards Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism, Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia Award, Edward R. Murrow Award, Genie Award for Best Feature Documentary, British Broadcast Award for Best Documentary, Royal Television Society Award and more.

Ric Esther Bienstock is a Canadian documentary filmmaker best known for her investigative documentaries. She was born in Montreal, Quebec and studied at McGill University. She has produced and directed an eclectic array of films from investigative social issue documentaries like Sex Slaves, an investigation into the trafficking of women from former Soviet Bloc Countries into the global sex trade and Ebola: Inside an Outbreak which took viewers to ground zero of the Ebola outbreak in Zaire - to lighter fare such as Penn & Teller’s Magic and Mystery Tour.

She was the 2015 recipient of the prestigious Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism from the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television[1] and was honoured with the Birks Diamond Tribute to the Year's Women in Film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[2]

She has garnered dozens of awards for her films including a U.S. Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, an Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism , a Scripps Howard Award for International Reporting, 2 Geminis, a Genie, a British Broadcast Award, a Royal Television Society Award, an Overseas Press Club of America Award, a Gracie Award, 2 Cine Golden Eagles, 2 Gold Hugos, a Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award from the IDA, 2 Hot Docs Awards, a Gold Worldmedia Award, 2 Amnesty International Awards, 3 Canadian Screen Awards including the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social Issue Documentary and a Cable Ace Award among others. She was also nominated for a BAFTA in the U.K.[3]

Filmography

Bienstock's films include:

Awards

Tales From the Organ Trade

The Age of Anxiety

Finding Atlantis[5]

Beasts of the Bible [8]

The Lost Tomb of Jesus [9]

Sex Slaves [10]

Impact of Terror [11]

Penn & Teller’s Magic and Mystery Tour [12]

The Money Shot

Ebola: Inside an Outbreak [13]

Ms. Conceptions [14]

The Plague Monkeys [15]

Deadly Currents [16]

Hurry Up and Wait

Burden on the Land [17]

AIDS in Africa

Bibliography

"PBS Frontline: 'Sex Slaves'". Washington Post. February 8, 2006. Retrieved 22 March 2012. 

References

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  3. ↑ BAFTA Television Awards
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  5. ↑ Associated Producers - Finding Atlantis
  6. ↑ http://en.sctvf.com.cn/_d272725840.htm
  7. ↑ http://geminiawards.tribute.ca/
  8. ↑ Associated Producers - Beasts of the Bible
  9. ↑ Associated Producers - The Lost Tomb of Jesus
  10. ↑ Associated Producers - Sex Slaves
  11. ↑ Associated Producers - Impact of Terror
  12. ↑ Internet Movie Database
  13. ↑ Associated Producers - Ebola: Inside an Outbreak
  14. ↑ Icarus Films - Ms. Conceptions
  15. ↑ Associated Producers - The Plague Monkeys
  16. ↑ Associated Producers - Deadly Currents
  17. ↑ Associated Producers - Burden on the Land
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