Julia Pimsleur is an American entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker. She is the daughter of

Paul Pimsleur Paul Pimsleur (October 17, 1927 – June 22, 1976) was a French-American linguist and scholar in the field of applied linguistics. He developed the Pimsleur language learning system, which, along with his many publications, had a significant ef ...

, who was a scholar of

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Early life and education

Pimsleur is the daughter of

, the creator of the Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery and the Pimsleur Method, and author Beverly Pimsleur. She has an undergraduate degree from Yale. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the French National Film School in Paris and attended

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’s Executive Education Program.

Career

Pimsleur is the founder and CEO of Million Dollar Women, an organization that supports female entrepreneurship. She produced several films in association with the Arts Engine film organization, including ''Brother Born Again'' about her brother. 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. Pimsleur's film ''Boola Boola... Yale Goes Coed'' was awarded the Sudler Award for the Arts at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

Personal life

In 2003 Pimsleur married Darren Stuart Levine, a rabbi. Pimsleur speaks

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, some

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and lives in

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with her two sons.

References

External links

Little Pim

Million Dollar Women

Julia Pimsleur's Web site
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