Feature Articles

• 'Our Disappeared' revisits a dark chapter in Argentina's history. (2008, September 12). Reed Johnson. The Los Angeles Times.
  "There's no body of written evidence, no realpolitik smoking gun, to directly connect Henry Kissinger with Ines Kuperschmit. But the former U.S. foreign policy mastermind and the Argentine-born Los Angeles attorney both play intertwined, supporting roles in Juan Mandelbaum's haunting and disturbing documentary 'Our Disappeared'..."
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• A filmmaker's search for his friends leads to 'Our Disappeared'. (2008, October 12). Linda Matchan. The Boston Globe.
  "About four years ago in an idle moment at work, Brookline filmmaker Juan Mandelbaum decided to Google an old girlfriend from his university days in Argentina. He was curious to know what had happened to her..."
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• Inside the NYJFF: Recovering "Our Disappeared". (2009, January 20). Christian Del Moral. Film Society of Lincoln Center Blog.
  "Lots of us are guilty of furtively googling exes. But when filmmaker Juan Mandelbaum typed in the name of his ex-girlfriend Patricia, he was in for a shock: she was among thousands in Argentina who were kidnapped, tortured and then "disappeared" by the military during the 1976-1983 dictatorship."
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• Society is good for friendship. (2008, November 7). Mary Alice Blackwell. Charlottesville Daily Progress.
  "Juan Mandelbaum and Richard Herskowitz have been friends for years. A filmmaker and his friend, who has directed the Virginia Film Festival for the past 15 years."
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• Brookline filmmaker turns lens on Argentina's vanished residents. (2008, October 16). Ed Symkus. Brookline TAB.
  "When Juan Mandelbaum was about 12 years old, growing up in Buenos Aires, he began experimenting with his mother’s 8mm camera, making little abstract movies of nature and cityscapes."
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• Documental Nuestros Desaparecidos: La necesidad de remover el pasado. (2008, October 3). Virginia Gómez. El Planeta.
  "De la manera que mejor sabe hacer, hilando historias en una película, el director y productor argentino Juan Mandelbaum ha querido que la memoria de su país no caiga en el injusto baúl de los recuerdos. Lejos de enterrar a la Argentina de su juventud, decide un día enfrentarse a sus fantasmas, recorre uno a uno los escenarios donde se decidió la historia y rescata las asombrosas historias de sus personajes."
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• Recordando Nuestros Desaparecidos / Remembering Our Disappeared (PDF). (2009, May). Fernando Ávila. nanopics production newsletter.
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