"Superb visually, this film is extremely valuable as a social and cultural document. It demonstrates the complex relationship between traditional and contemporary life in Latin American indigenous communities. The collaboration between the filmmaker and the linguistic anthropologist is a model for the rest of indigenous Latin America. The film is sensitive and thought provoking. It will appeal to both scholars and the general public and can be used effectively in classroom teaching."—Joel Sherzer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Founder of the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America

"The cinematography is exquisite. The film is a profound and meditative ethnography on the life, livelihood, and artisanship of a patriarch and his family. It is recommended for anthropology, art, gerontology, and Latin American and Native American Studies courses."—Educational Media Reviews Online

"SILVESTRE PANTALEON is an extraordinary portrait of an ordinary man."—Anthropology Review Database

"SILVESTRE PANTALEON is a superb example of the intersection of endangered language research in a cultural context and documentary filmmaking. This film will be particularly useful in the university classroom in courses on language documentation, ethnography, cultural anthropology, or any class examining language-in-use as the portal to all aspects of Indigenous knowledge of craft, ceremony, ecology and economy. Furthermore, it serves as a model product of long-term language documentation research in a speaker community setting."—Dr. Andrea L. Berez, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and Technology Section Editor, Language Documentation and Conservation