Ric Esther Bienstock OC is a Canadian documentary filmmaker best known for her investigative documentaries.
She was born in Montreal, Quebec and studied at Vanier College and 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.
She was also nominated for a BAFTA in the U.K.[3] 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 "PBS Frontline: 'Sex Slaves'".