BURNT ORANGES: Key Personnel

SILVIA MALAGRINO, Director/Executive Producer



Silvia Malagrino is a Chicago based artist, native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an
Associate Professor at The School of Art and Design of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Her career as an award-winning artist, who has exhibited nationally and internationally,
spans over 20 years. Her innovative interdisciplinary work in multiple media – including photography, installation, and digital video, - amalgamates critical thinking with poetry, and metaphor with documentation.

Malagrino's work is included in the collections of the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; La Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; and the Fundaçao Athos Bulçao, Brasilia, Brazil, among others. She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including The National Endowment for the Arts, seven Illinois Arts Council Artist's Fellowships, and The CINE Golden Eagle Award for Burnt Oranges. In 2005, her digital video animation The Stream of Life received the prestigious Lorenzo De Medici Golden Medal, First Prize Award in New Media at the 5th Edition of Biennale Internazionale dell' Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy.

MONICA FLORES CORREA, Writer/Co-Producer

Since graduating at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1978, Monica has worked as a
journalist for Argentine newspapers. She won a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in
1989 and later on became the U.S. correspondent for the Buenos Aires daily newspaper,
Pagina 12, an assignment that she held for 10 years. She is also a writer of fiction and poetry.
Currently she lives in New York City and she is working on a book of short stories, tentatively
called Agosto (August). In the field of human rights, Monica is a founding member of the
Argentine chapter of Amnesty International.



SHARON KARP, Editor



Sharon Karp has been editing and producing documentaries for over twenty years. She was a
founding member of Kartemquin Films, producer of the Oscar and Emmy nominated HOOP
DREAMS, among many others. These include the Emmy-nominated SILENT PIONEERS, and
the Chicago Film Festival/ Silver Hugo award winner THE CHICAGO MATERNITY CENTER
STORY. She was an editor on NBC's VIETNAM: LONG TIME COMING, which covers the
storiesof American and Vietnamese veterans on a historic 1,200 mile bicycle ride from Hanoi
toHo Chi Mihn City. This documentary was chosen as the best documentary of 1998 by the
Directors Guild of America, and won an Emmy the same year. Other editing credits include:
SAVING THE SPHINX for TLC, LOST CITIES OF THE RAIN FOREST for A&E and the Chicago
Film Festival's Golden Hugo winner LIDICE: IN THE SHADOW OF MEMORY, a film about the
Nazi destruction of the Czech village, Lidice, that focuses on the long-term effects of war. Most
recently, she completed THE RETURN O! F NAVAJO BOY which premiered at the Sundance
Film Festival in January 2000.

Camera, SHARON KARP, SILVIA MALAGRINO and ORAL BARAT USER

Oral Berat User has produced and/or photographed several international documentaries,
including: TRINITY IRISH DANCERS, a profile of an Irish Dancing Troupe, shot in Dublin and
aired on PBS; and MICHIGAN AVENUE: FROM MUSEUMS TO THE MAGNIFICENT MILE, a
history of the famous Chicago street, which was aired on Chicago's PBS affiliate WTTW. He
was director of photography and producer for SAVING THE SPHINX, a documentary produced
for The Learning Channel, which aired in November. As a producer in his native Turkey, User
co-produced several special projects for Istanbul Television, most of which concerned Turkish
immigrants' working conditions in other European countries.

FRED SIMON , Composer/Musician



Fred Simon has been making music for more than thirty years, composing for records, live
performance, film, dance, and television, with instrumentation ranging from solo piano to
symphonic orchestra. His recorded work includes six albums of original music under his
name: SHORT STORY and TIME AND THE RIVER (Quaver), USUALLY/ALWAYS
(Windham Hill), OPEN BOOK (Columbia), DREAMHOUSE (The Naim Label), and
REMEMBER THE RIVER (The Naim Label); three albums (as principle composer) with the
Simon and Bard Group: MUSAIC, TEAR IT UP, and THE ENORMOUS RADIO (Flying Fish);
as well as TWILIGHT (NorthSound Music Group), a collaboration with reed player Paul
McCandless and guitarist Teja Bell; THE MUSIC OF THE BEACH BOYS (NorthSound Music
Group), a record of solo piano arrangements of Brian Wilson songs; and numerous
appearances on samplers released by Windham Hill, Columbia, Narada, Private Music,
Imaginary Road, NorthSound Music Group, Jazziz Magazine, and The Naim Label. Fred has
recorded and/or performed with Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Larry Coryell, Lyle Mays,
Iain Matthews (founding member of Fairport Convention), Jerry Goodman (Mahavishnu
Orchestra violinist), Steve Rodby and Paul Wertico (both with Pat Metheny Group), Bonnie
Herman (Singers Unlimited), Kurt Elling, Fareed Haque, David Onderdonk, Ingrid Graudins,
Ross Traut, The Stan Kenton Orchestra, and many others. Other musical compositions by
Astor Piazzola.