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Julia Pimsleur

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Julia Pimsleur
EducationB.A., M.F.A.

Julia Pimsleur is an American entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker. She is the daughter of Paul Pimsleur, who was a scholar of applied linguistics.

Early life and education

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Pimsleur is the daughter of Paul Pimsleur, the creator of the Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery and the Pimsleur Method, and author Beverly Pimsleur.[citation needed] She has an undergraduate degree from Yale.[1] She has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the French National Film School in Paris and attended Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Program.[citation needed]

Career

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Pimsleur is the founder and CEO of Million Dollar Women, an organization that supports female entrepreneurship.[2] She produced several films in association with the Arts Engine film organization, including Brother Born Again about her brother.[3][4] Her films Nuyorican Dream and Innocent Until Proven Guilty were shown on Cinemax Reellife and HBO and at festivals around the world including the Sundance Film Festival.[5][6] Pimsleur's film Boola Boola... Yale Goes Coed was awarded the Sudler Award for the Arts at Yale University.[7]

Personal life

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In 2003 Pimsleur married Darren Stuart Levine, a rabbi.[8] Pimsleur speaks French, Italian, some Spanish and lives in New York City with her two sons.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ "Yale Bulletin and Calendar". Yale.edu. Archived from the original on 20 January 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  2. ^ Bedgood, Scott (2020-07-24). "How Julia Pimsleur Is Paying Her Success Forward". SUCCESS. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  3. ^ "Brother Born Again". Internet Movie Database. IMDb. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Episode 166: Nobody's Family is Going to Change". ThisAmericanLife.org. This American Life. 11 August 2000. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  5. ^ "'Dream' Shows Strength of Family's Love". Los Angeles Times. 16 October 2000. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  6. ^ Goodale, Gloria. "HBO's role evolves with 'Innocent'". Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  7. ^ "Campus Life: Yale; 20 Years Later, 'Coeds' Recall Breaking a Barrier". The New York Times. 29 April 1990. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  8. ^ "Weddings/Celebrations; Julia Pimsleur, Darren Levine". New York Times. 22 June 2003. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
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