Juan Mandelbaum’s documentaries have been broadcast on a variety of venues, from American Playhouse to Sesame Street and have won multiple awards, including Emmy awards and nominations. He was a producer/director at GBH-Boston on the America series, a ten-part prime-time series on Latin America that aired nationally on PBS.
Mandelbaum’s independent productions and portraits of artists have been aired on PBS and international TV networks and in many festivals and are in worldwide distribution. These include Caetano in Bahia, Liliana Porter: Fragments of the Journey, For You/Para Usted, Ringl and Pit, A New World of Music, and the Poetry Heaven series. His film, Our Disappeared/Nuestros Desaparecidos, on people he knew who were “disappeared” during the military dictatorship in Argentina, was supported by the Sundance Institute, Latino Public Broadcasting and ITVS, and aired on the PBS series Independent and Global Voices. He was a Consulting Producer on “Chavela,” a tribute to the famous singer that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. His films have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., The Jewish Museum, New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Harvard Film Archive, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, and many film festivals worldwide.
