What People are Saying About the Film:

Malagrino turns on the taps of memory and out come swirling images, saved
correspondence and recollections that make the determination of the people
to right wrongs so compelling...

      -ReelHeArt International Film Festival Judge



Malagrino walks the tightrope between the personal and the political.
The film succeeds on both levels.

      -ReelHeArt International Film Festival Judge



More than a documentary, a poem, a cantata! Thank you for letting me be
a part of this beautiful work, -such a delight, touching, sad but triumphant!
From the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo to the military, this film captures
everything, so lyrical, so against hate.

      -Robert Cox, journalist. Witness and participant in the film



Your images still haunt me. It was an honor to have a glimpse of hope
through your eyes and those who were in your film.

      -JD Weinshenker, artist



There was so much power in the stories you told: the power of terror and
terrorism, the power of a mother's love multiplied by thousands, the power of
the human spirit to go on finding joy in life (which I saw particularly though not
exclusively in all the Argentineans inhabiting the city scenes you picked out
and framed for us), the power of the heart to both absorb and transcend
horror - both personal and national.

      -Judy Levi, PHD, Professor of Linguistics



I saw your very moving movie last Thursday in the Gene Siskel Film center
and I just wanted to let you know, how much it impressed me. I learned about
the disappeared generation in school back home in Germany and I always
was very touched by that national tragedy. I hope it reaches as many people
as possible.

      -Claudia Kaiser, MD

Congratulations to you and Monica for an informative, sensitive, artistic, moving, inspiring, and, at times, frightening documentary of the terrifying and deeply sad period of the late 70s and early 80s in Argentina and its repercussions, some of them hopeful. So timely for today's world, If Burnt Oranges did nothing else, it should force us all to be concerned about the fate of democracy and human values to the extent that we take responsible steps for maintaining them before they are destroyed by forces beyond our control. Already, many of us in the U.S.A. see worrisome signs of militarism in policies that purport to protect us, but, in effect, threaten to weaken the core values on which our democracy was founded.