Juan Mandelbaum
Filmmaker, Geovision
Examiner Club Head of Programming and Editor of the Monthly Newsletter
Juan Mandelbaum has been recognized as a documentary film producer, and has also worked as teacher, curator and consultant. He is Creative Director at Geovision, a company specializing in public health communications and documentary film production.
Juan’s work has been broadcast on a variety of venues, from AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE to SESAME STREET, and has won multiple awards, including EMMY awards and nominations. Juan was a producer/director at WGBH-Boston on the AMERICAS series, a 10-part prime-time series on Latin America that aired nationally on PBS. For AMERICAS he co-produced In Women's Hands, a historical program on women's participation in public life in Chile over 20 years, and produced Builders of Images, on the special role of artists in Latin America.
Juan’s independent productions have aired on PBS, 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, on The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. His film Our Disappeared/Nuestros desaparecidos, on people he knew who disappeared during the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s, was supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, Latino Public Broadcasting and ITVS. It played at over 30 festivals worldwide and aired on the PBS series INDEPENDENT LENS and GLOBAL VOICES.
Juan was Consulting Producer on Chavela, a film on the legendary singer Chavela Vargas that premiered at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
His most recent production is The Blunderwood Portable, on the production and installation of a giant recreation of a 1920s typewriter for a private sculpture park in Mexico. It premiered at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 2020.
Juan’s 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.
Juan is past president of the Flaherty Film Seminars. He has also served on panels for the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Latino Public Broadcasting and ITVS.
A native of Argentina, Juan holds an M.A. in Communications from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, which in 1998 awarded him the Merrill Panitt Citizenship Award. He has been a Lecturer at the Annenberg School, an Instructor and Lecturer at Boston University and Adjunct Faculty at the Art Institute of Boston.
WEBSITE:
www.geovisiononline.com
HIGHLIGHTS:
“The Blunderwood Portable”