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Eduardo Montes-Bradley

Argentine-American documentarian and photographer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eduardo Montes-Bradley
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Eduardo Montes-Bradley (born July 1960) is a documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on biographical, cultural, and historical subjects. He is co-founder of Heritage Film Project and currently lives in Charlottesville. In addition to his work in film, he is the author of Cortázar sin barba, a literary biography of Julio Cortázar published by Random House Mondadori. His most recent works include The Piccirilli Factor, a film about the Italian-American sculptors behind many of the most iconic monuments in the United States,[1] and Black Fiddlers. He is also known for directing Evita (2008), Rita Dove: An American Poet, Harto the Borges, and Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor.[2]

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Early life

Eduardo Montes-Bradley was raised in Buenos Aires in a home of mixed heritage. His mother was of Eastern European descent, the daughter of Jewish immigrants who arrived in Argentina during the interwar period. His father, Nelson, was of mixed heritage himself, descended from Italian, Galician, and New England families who had settled in Buenos Aires in the first half of the 19th century. Nelson was one of the founders of Discos Qualiton, where Eduardo had his first job in 1974 while concurrently attending public school.

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Career

In a 1996 appearance on CNN en Español's Cala (hosted by Ismael Cala), Montes-Bradley revealed that his passion for creating documentary films that mirror the voices of underrepresented stories was, in his view, a continuation of the work his father and his partners were doing by publishing underrepresented works of otherwise well-known European composers and less-known vernacular composers such as Carlos Guastavino and Alberto Ginastera. In 1986, Montes-Bradley founded The Entertainment Herald, a bilingual magazine based in Los Angeles catering to the film industry. Between 1988 and 1991, he produced and directed two films distributed by TriStar Columbia. In 1995, he produced and directed El Secuestro, his last fiction feature film. In 1998, with the support of the ministries of culture in Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil, Montes-Bradley founded Contrakultura Films, which produced over 20 feature documentary films about Latin American writers, artists, and cultural traditions. In 2008, he established Heritage Film Project with producer Soledad Liendo. Heritage Film Project has since produced several films with the support of the Documentary Film Fund and other philanthropic institutions and individuals. These films are distributed to a worldwide audience through public television, and public and academic libraries, and are available through Kanopy Streaming and Alexander Street Press.

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Fiction

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Production still: Margaux Hemingway
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Experimental

  • Frogments, 2000. Based on 8 mm images captured by Julio Cortázar in India and Africa with voice over by Allen Ginsberg.
  • Freedom, 1986. Based on 8 mm images captured by Montes-Bradley in and around Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami with focus in city homelessness.

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Bibliography

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Habeas corpus: Peter Paul Weinschenk, alias Pablo Tabernero. Buenos Aires, Argentina: 34th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, INCAA. 2019. pp. 144 : photographs, 23 cm.Ideography, Biographical approach to Peter Paul Weinschenk, life and works of Pablo Tabernero, cinematographer of Prisioneros de la tierra directed by Mario Soffici.

Los dedos del huracán. Short story. Children Literature. Included on "De Ola en Ola 3" school textbook for third grade. Group Macmillan. Editorial Estrada S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina. Illustrated by Eugenia Nobati. p. 62–67[45]

Montes-Bradley, Eduardo (2016). El amigo de Filloy: cartas de RE Montes i Bradley a Juan Filloy (1935-1976). Charlottesville, VA. pp. 186 : illustrations, 6" X 9". ISBN 978-1534777682.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Correspondence between Juan Filloy and Montes i Bradley.[46]

Montes-Bradley, Eduardo (2012). La resurreción de Ocantos. Los Angeles, CA. pp. 62 Hard Cover : illustrations, 23 cm. ISBN 978-1449907402.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Bio-bibliographical essay on Carlos María Ocantos.[47][48]

Cortázar sin barba. Madrid: Random House Mondadori. 2005. pp. 394 Hard Cover : illustrations, 23 cm. ISBN 84-8306-603-3. Biography of Julio Cortázar.[49][50] 1st edition Editorial Sudamericana, Argentina 2004. 3rd edition, Pesódromo 21, 2014.[51][52][53]

Água No Terceiro Milenio. Brasília, Montevideo: Bianchi Editores Ediciones Pilar, Collección Señales de Vida. 2000. pp. 318, 21 cm. ISBN 9974-663-17-2. Bilingual Anthology of Short Stories. Selection of awarded works at the Literary Award "Agua no terceiro Milenio",[54] Brazil. Bilingual: Portuguese-Spanish. Pilar Editors, Brasília, 2000. Includes the short story "Das schwerste gewicht" previously published in "Ya se que todo es mentira" (1999), Editorial del Nuevo Extremo, Buenos Aires 1999.[55]

Osvaldo Soriano: Un retrato. Buenos Aires: Grupo Editorial Norma. 2000. pp. 171 Rustic. ISBN 9879334353. Sperling & Kupfer Editori, Milan, Italy, 2001, 164pp. Translated by Gina Maneri. Collection: Continente Desaparecido, directed by Gianni Minà ISBN 88-200-3201-5.[56][57] Based on the homonymous documentary by the author.[58][59][60]

Ya se que todo es mentira. Buenos Aires: Editorial del Nuevo Extremo. 1999. p. 200. ISBN 950-9681-85-7. (trad. I know It's All Lies). Some of the short stories included have been previously published in literary magazines. Foreword by Osvaldo Bayer. 199 pp. 23 cm.[61] Foreword by Osvaldo Bayer.

'Senxo', Selected Poems. Editorial Grupo Archivo de Comunicación, New York City, 1984. Foreword by Armando Tejada Gómez. Out of print.

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Journalism

Montes-Bradley contributed to El País, Babelia,[62] Les cinemas de la Amerique Latine[63] by Association Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse France; La Jornada, Mexico; the monthly review Latinoamérica e Tutto il Sud dell Mondo, Italy; and in Argentina to the literary magazine Esperando a Godot; the art-magazine Revista Lote, Venado Tuerto, Suplemento Radar published by Página/12, El Amante de cine, "Diario Perfil," "Revista Ñ" Clarin,[64] Critica de Argentina; and La Nación. Montes-Bradley was a frequent collaborator with the literary blog "Nación Apache."

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Photography

Montes-Bradley was recognized by the National Council on Public History with the "Outstanding Public History Project Award" as part of the exhibit "The Mere Distinction of Colour" produced by James Madison's Montpelier.[65] His photo-work appeared in The Atlantic,[66] The Washington Post,[67] La Nacion,[68]The Independent,[69] Deutsche Welle,[70] Diario Clarin[71] other newspapers[72] and magazines[73] as well as "Escenas de la memoria. La Casa Argentina en la voz de sus antiguos residentes",[74][75] and "Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center 20th Anniversary".[76] His work is partially preserved at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, the University of Virginia.[77]

Awards and honors

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Appearances in other media

  • Margaux Hemingway,E! True Hollywood Story.[86] USA, 1996.
  • Jorge Giannoni. NN, ése soy yo, 2000.[87]
  • Derrumbe. Novel by Daniel Guebel. Random House Mondadori, 2012.
  • Mis escritores muertos. Novel by Daniel Guebel. Random House Mondadori, 2012.[88]
  • Zenitram, film by Luis Barone.[89]

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