Eduardo Montes-Bradley is a documentary filmmaker. His most recent works are ''Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor'' and ''Black Fiddlers''.
Life
Montes-Bradley first appeared mentioned in Margareta Vinterheden's ''Man maste ju leva', Sweden, 1978. In 1980 he was the New York correspondent for ''El Heraldo del Cine''El Heraldo del Cine, Vol 13. Buenos Aires, 1980.Macau, Clarissa. "Cinema como forma escrita" Revista Continente. August 7, 2013 He worked as cinematographer on films made in
Nicaragua
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, and in
El Salvador
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Stuart Whitman
Stuart Maxwell Whitman (February 1, 1928 – March 16, 2020) was an American actor, known for his lengthy career in film and television. Whitman was born in San Francisco and raised in New York until the age of 12, when his family relocated to ...
,
Burt Ward
Burt Ward (born Bert John Gervis Jr. , July 6, 1945) is an American actor, animal welfare activist and businessman. He played Dick Grayson's Robin, the sidekick of Batman (played by Adam West), in the television series ''Batman'' (1966–1968), ...
and Sydney Lassik, a year later he wrote and directed ''Double Obsession'', starring
Maryam D'Abo
Maryam d'Abo is a British actress, best known as Bond girl Kara Milovy in the 1987 James Bond film '' The Living Daylights''.
Early life and education
Born in London to Georgian mother Nino Kvinitadze, daughter of General Giorgi Kvinitadze, a ...
,
Margaux Hemingway
Margaux Louise Hemingway (born Margot Louise Hemingway; February 16, 1954 – July 1, 1996) was an American fashion model and actress. She gained success as a supermodel in the mid-1970s, appearing on the covers of magazines including ''Cosmopo ...
Frederick Forrest
Frederick Edward Forrest MC (9 April 1877 – 20 October 1930) was an Australian soldier and politician.
He was born in Rheola, Victoria, to miner Edward James Forrest and Cecelia Hannah Atchison. He worked in Queensland and joined the volunt ...
, ''Double Obsession was'' released by
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. "The Kidnapping" (El sekuestro, 1995) was his last fiction film. In 1997 Montes-Bradley directed " Soriano" first in a series on Latin American writers produced by
Contrakultura Films
Contrakultura Films was an imprint of Iruña Films, SA a Buenos Aires film production effort dedicated to producing biographical documentaries on Latin American writers. Production offices were located in San Telmo. Soledad Liendo, Leonardo Husse ...
. Other titles, such as Samba On Your Feet, explored Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian cultures."100 Years of Samba Films and Display at Alma Jordan Library" – University of West Indies at St. Agustin. , October 13, 2016Fundação Espaço Cultural da
Paraíba
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– Funesc. Governo Da Paraíba. Ofício Sec No. 174-2010. September 2010 In 2008 Montes-Bradley co-founded
Heritage Film Project
Heritage Film Project is a film-production studio and film distribution company established in Charlottesville since 2010. It was founded by Eduardo Montes-Bradley and Soledad Liendo in 2008.
Heritage Film Project produces documentaries on the art ...
. His films are available in academic as well as public libraries. Montes-Bradley is credited under the pseudonyms Diana Hunter and Rita Clavel. In December 2019, the
City of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
sponsored the exhibit "From Here and There: A Partial Retrospective of Montes-Bradley's Documentaries" which included 19 titles produced in Argentina, the United States, Brazil, and Germany between 1999 and 2019.
Filmography
Non Fiction
* Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor , Documentary about the
American Renaissance
The American Renaissance was a period of American architecture and the arts from 1876 to 1917, characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman law, and Renaissance h ...
sculptor who designed Abraham Lincoln, the larger-than-life seated statue at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and The Minuteman. Throughout the film, the director approaches a select number of experts on public art and sculpture including Thayer Tolles, Harold Holzer, Michele Bogart, Eve Kahn, Adrian Benepe, Michael Richman, and Richard Guy Wilson from the University of Virginia. The film pays particular attention to the relationship between American sculptors and Italian-American stone cutters and sculptures such as the
Piccirilli brothers
The Piccirilli brothers were an Italian family of renowned marble carving, carvers and sculptors who carved many of the most significant marble sculptures in the United States, including Daniel Chester French’s colossal ''Abraham Lincoln (1920 s ...
and the relationship with life female models with a particular focus on the African American model Hettie Anderson. Filmed on location at Chesterwood,
Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial built to honor the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across from the Washington Monument, and is in ...
,
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded in 1910 using land from Mount Prospect Park in central Brooklyn, adjacent to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum. The garden hold ...
, and the University of Virginia. The film was made possible with the support of the
National Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a privately funded, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that works in the field of historic preservation in the United States. The member-supported organization was founded in 1949 b ...
.
* Black Fiddlers , The film traces the personal and family stories of violin players of African descent in New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, Texas, Missouri, and as far as Oregon during the Indian Wars and the Gold Rush. Includes the testimony of
Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician. She is a founding member of the country, blues and old-time music band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she is the lead singer, fiddle player, and banjo player.
Giddens ...
founding member of the
Carolina Chocolate Drops
The Carolina Chocolate Drops were an old-time string band from Durham, North Carolina. Their 2010 album, '' Genuine Negro Jig,'' won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, and was number 9 in '' fRo ...
and authors Howard and Judith Sacks, Kip Lornell,
John Jeremiah Sullivan
John Jeremiah Sullivan (born 1974) is an American writer, musician, teacher, and editor. He is a contributing writer for ''The New York Times Magazine'', a contributing editor of ''Harper's Magazine'', and the southern editor of ''The Paris Revi ...
, and Marshall Wyatt. Black Fiddlers was produced -in part- with a gift from The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation and it was in the Official Selection at the
Virginia Film Festival
The Virginia Film Festival is a film festival hosted by the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The festival is held annually, usually in late October or early November.
History
Cr ...
, 2022. HD , 60 minutes
Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician. She is a founding member of the country, blues and old-time music band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she is the lead singer, fiddle player, and banjo player.
Giddens ...
: “You know, when you look back at your life and there’s always crossroads, there’s always before and after events, you know. And meeting Joe, and not just meeting him but actually becoming his apprentice is definitely one of those crossroad events.” -Luke Church
* The Other Madisons , Based on the homonymous book ''The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family'' by Bettye Kearse, the film explores the life of African-American descendants of
James Madison
James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father. He served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for h ...
. According to the author, Bettie Kearse, before becoming the 4th fourth President of the United States, and while still on his farm at James Madison's Montpelier, Madison fathered a child with an enslaved woman named Coreen. The film then traces multiple descendants while contextualizing each generation to a corresponding set of historical circumstances. HD , 38 min , 16:9 Official Selection at Mystic Film Festival, Martha's Vineyard Film Festival, Atlanta Black Pride Film Festival, 2021; Official Selection DC Black Film Festival, 2021; Official Selection Roxbury International Film Festival, 2021.
Honorable Mention
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An awa ...
, Black Truth Film Festival, 2022.
* Alice: At Home With Alice Parker , Biographical documentary exploring the life, and works of composer-conductor
Alice Parker
Alice Parker (born December 16, 1925) is an American composer, arranger, conductor, and teacher. She has authored five operas, eleven song-cycles, thirty-three cantatas, eleven works for chorus and orchestra, forty-seven choral suites, and mo ...
. Filmed in
Hawley Hawley may refer to:
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Places named Hawley
;In Australia
* Hawley Beach, Tasmania
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;In the United States
* Hawley, Colorado
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. Alice focuses on the formative years and the collaborations with Robert Shaw, and with the works of
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...
Eudora Welty
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel ''The Optimist's Daughter'' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous ...
and
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.
Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massac ...
. American premiere by Chorus America on October 8, 2020. Grand Jury Prize, Mystic Film Festival, 2021; Official Selection, 2020
Virginia Film Festival
The Virginia Film Festival is a film festival hosted by the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The festival is held annually, usually in late October or early November.
History
Cr ...
. Distributed by
Kanopy
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. Produced in 2020 by HFP in association with Melodious Accord, Inc.
* Searching 4-Tabernero , Documentary about the multiple exiles of Peter Paul Weinschenk, a Jewish German cinematographer better known as Pablo Tabernero for his contributions to the
Golden Age
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of Argentine cinema. Tabernero worked as Director of Cinematography with
Carlos Hugo Christensen
Carlos Hugo Christensen (Santiago del Estero, 15 December 1914 – Rio de Janeiro, 30 November 1999) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.
He was of Danish descent through his paternal side. Christensen directed fifty-fo ...
,
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici (14 May 1900 – 10 May 1977) was an Argentina, Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.
Biography
A native of Florence, Soffici moved to Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in ...
,
Hugo del Carril
Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana, otherwise known as Hugo del Carril (30 November 1912 – 13 August 1989 in Buenos Aires), was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era.
Early life
Born in Buenos Aires, del Carril ...
, and
Luis Saslavsky
Luis Saslavsky (April 21, 1903 – March 20, 1995) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era.
Personal life
Saskavsky was born in Rosario, Sa ...
among other prominent film directors. Weinsckenk left Berlin in 1933, first to Barcelona during the
Spanish Second Republic
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, then to Buenos Aires after Franco's consolidation of power and the fall of
Catalonia
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Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the no ...
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known b ...
. Three of his films were included as part of a curated retrospective of film noir at
MOMA
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People
* Moma Clarke (1869–1958), British journalist
* Moma Marković (1912–1992), Serbian politician
* Momčilo Rajin (born 1954), Serbian art and music critic, theorist and historian, artist and publisher
Places
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in 2015:
Si muero antes de despertar
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Barcelona
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in times of the
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlism, Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebeli ...
. There were two versions made of this film, a director's cut produced by
Heritage Film Project
Heritage Film Project is a film-production studio and film distribution company established in Charlottesville since 2010. It was founded by Eduardo Montes-Bradley and Soledad Liendo in 2008.
Heritage Film Project produces documentaries on the art ...
, and a co-production adapted for the screens in Argentina which resulted from a co-production between Heritage Film Project and Soy Cine. Premiered at the 34th
Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata
The Mar del Plata International Film Festival ( es, Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata) is an international film festival that takes place every November in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina. It is the only competitive feature fes ...
, 2020
* A Soldier's Dream: The Milt Feldman Story , Biographical portrayal of Milt Feldman, a US Veteran with the 106th Infantry Division, captured at the
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. The battle lasted from 16 December 1944 to 28 January 1945, towards the end of the war in ...
. Feldman was marched by German troops and transported to
Stalag IV-B
Stalag IV-B was one of the largest prisoner-of-war camps in Germany during World War II. Stalag is an abbreviation of the German ''Stammlager'' ("Main Camp"). It was located north-east of the town of Mühlberg in the Prussian Province of ...
where he remain a
POW
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Belligerents hold prisoners of ...
until the arrival of the
Red Army
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. The film is also a window into Milt Feldman's life in a family of Polish immigrants in Brooklyn during the early 1930s. "A Soldier's Dream" premiered in Pleasanton on August 11, 2018, It was awarded Best Documentary at the 9th Historical and Military Film Festival,
Warsaw
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, Best Biography at Oniros Film Awards, 2019, and Best Feature Documentary at
Port Orchard
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Film Festival, 2019. ''A Soldier's Dream'' was in the Official Selection at the Western European Film Festival, 2019; Courage Film Festival, Berlin, 2019; San Francisco Veteran's Film Festival 2018, Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2018, and the Great Western Catskills International Film Festival, 2018. "A Soldier's Dream" aired on PBS. HD , 60 minutes
* The Gillenwater Story , Biographical portrayal of Jay Y. Gillenwater, UVA academic physician and researcher, a woodland gardener with an old-school belief in family, friendship, and self-sufficiency. This portrait of a plain-spoken scientist who married his
childhood sweetheart
Childhood sweetheart is a reciprocating phrase for a relationship (but not a partnership) between young persons. This may come about by an extension of friendship, physical attraction or develop from natural affinity.
The relationship is usually ...
brings out the wisdom of an unassuming Southerner and the moral compass of an exemplary man. HD , 30 min.
* Monroe Hill , Explores the historical context of
James Monroe
James Monroe ( ; April 28, 1758July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Monroe wa ...
's first
plantation
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in
Albemarle County
Albemarle County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its county seat is Charlottesville, which is an independent city and enclave entirely surrounded by the county. Albemarle County is part of the Charl ...
in times of the
French Revolution
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. The colonial building known as Monroe Hill predates
Highland
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and the University of Virginia and currently serves as the administrative offices of
Brown Residential College
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. To contextualize the late 18th Century period in Virginia the editor included rare historical footage from
D. W. Griffith
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's films. HFP , HD , 60 min.
* Unearthed and Understood, Academic documentary awarded by the President's Commission on Slavery and the university (PCSU) at the
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with College admission ...
. It premiered on October 16, 2014, at the conference "Universities Confronting the Legacy of Slavery", in
Charlottesville
Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the county seat of Albemarle County, which surrounds the city, though the two are separate legal entities. It is named after Queen ...
. HD , 18 minutes.
* Rita Dove: An American Poet , Biographical portrayal of
Rita Dove
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the positi ...
. The one-hour-long documentary is made of a series of conversations between the writer and the filmmaker. These conversations took place in Charlottesville between September 2012 and October 2013. Rita Dove: An American Poet was edited by combining hundreds of still images and home movies from the Dove family's collection. The intimacy of the film's dialogue brings a uniquely personal insight into the wide range of Dove's artistic passions. Most of the film's images are the results of the efforts of Rita Dove's father (Ray A. Dove) to record their family's life in the 1950s and 1960s. Rita Dove: An American Poet premiered in
Charlottesville
Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the county seat of Albemarle County, which surrounds the city, though the two are separate legal entities. It is named after Queen ...
social activist
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Julian Bond
Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015) was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the e ...
, a former member of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced ) was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segreg ...
, and former Georgia legislator. In 2016 it was presented at the
British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...
, and later awarded Best Documentary at the 4th Baltimore International Black Film Festival."Les boîtes ouvertes de l'Amérique numérique. Aveux d'un documentariste indocile" Revue Annuelle de L'association Rencontres Cinémas D'Amerique Latine de Toulouse. Toulouse, France. Issue Number 21. p. 171 Distributed by Filmmakers Library & Alexander Street Press, USA. HD, 34 min.
* J.J.Lankes: Yankee Printmaker in Virginia , Documentary exploring the life and work of Julius John Lankes who illustrated the works of
Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American collo ...
,
Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and ...
, and
Roark Bradford
Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford (August 21, 1896, Lauderdale County, Tennessee — November 13, 1948, New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American short story writer and novelist.
Life
He attended University of California, Berkeley, and served as ...
among other writers of his generation. Partially based on the previous research by Welford Dunaway Taylor, professor emeritus of
English Literature
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at the
University of Richmond
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. Written in collaboration with Jeffrey Plank, and produced by Soledad Liendo. The film includes conversations with Burchfield scholar Nancy Weekly, and with Parker C. Agelasto. ''J.J.Lankes: Yankee Printmaker in Virginia'' premiered in Buenos Aires, and was included in the Official Selection at Buffalo International Film Festival as part of a special exhibit organized by the
Burchfield Penney Art Center
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and the
State University of New York
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; and in the Special Selection at the
Virginia Film Festival
The Virginia Film Festival is a film festival hosted by the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The festival is held annually, usually in late October or early November.
History
Cr ...
, 2019. HD , 30 min.
* White: A Season in the Life of John Borden Evans , Portrayal of John Borden Evans filmed at the artist's 19th-century farm in North Garden, Virginia during the winter of 2015. The film was awarded Best Documentary at the 4th International Documentary Festival of
Ierapetra
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History
The town of Ierapetra (in the local dialect: Γεράπετρο ''Gerapetro'') is located on ...
; Best Documentary at Richmond International Film Festival, and it was shown at the Official Selection at the
Virginia Film Festival
The Virginia Film Festival is a film festival hosted by the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The festival is held annually, usually in late October or early November.
History
Cr ...
. HD, 30 min.
* Andrés Waissman , Expositive documentary about
Andrés Waissman
Andrés Waissman is a visual artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1955. A relevant figure of Argentinian and Latin-American contemporary art, he is known for paintings such as ''Multitudes'', ''Black & White'', and his most recent work, ''V ...
. Filmed in
Palermo
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at the art studio where the artist discusses his childhood and early influences; his Jewish ancestry, and his commitment to
social activism
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. ''Andrés Waissman'' premiered at
MALBA
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Created by Argentine businessman Eduardo Costantin ...
on July 10, 2012. HD , 30 min.
* Humberto Calzada , Portrayal of
Cuban-American
Cuban Americans ( es, cubanoestadounidenses or ''cubanoamericanos'') are Americans who trace their cultural heritage to Cuba regardless of phenotype or ethnic origin. The word may refer to someone born in the United States of Cuban descent or t ...
artist Humberto Calzada. The film explores Calzada's childhood in
Havana, Cuba
Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.
before the
Revolution
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. Calzada's meticulous attempt to reconstruct the past is a constant on his work. Original Music by Gerardo Aguillón (violin) and José Angel Navarro (guitar).''
El Nuevo Herald
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About ''el Nuevo ...
''. ''Revista Aplausos''. By Olga Connor, Miami, January 7, 2010, Distributed by Alexander Street Press and
Kanopy
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contemporary artist
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Little Haiti
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, Florida. In a conversational style, Celis discusses the influences of
Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is kn ...
and
Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primar ...
in his work, his political views, his recollection of Evita, and his exiles in
Caracas
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and in
Paris
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. Produced in part with an award from
INCAA
The National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts ( es, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, INCAA; also referred to as the Argentine National Film Board) is an agency of the Government of Argentina. It promotes the Argentine ...
. USA-Argentina, 2005.HD, 60 min
* Cortázar: apuntes para un documental , Documentary exploring the political views of
Julio Cortázar
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an ...
's on the Latin American progressive movement during the 1960s. The film includes previously unseen home movies filmed by Cortázar, an avid 8mm aficionado, shot in Paris with Carole Dunlop; in the gardens of the Mexican Embassy in New Delhi with
Aurora Bernardez
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,
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, a ...
,
Elena Garro
Elena Garro (December 11, 1916 – August 22, 1998) was a Mexican screenwriter, journalist, dramaturg, short story writer, and novelist. She has been described as the initiator of the Magical Realism movement, though she rejected this affiliation. ...
and Nicaragua with
Claribel Alegría
Clara Isabel Alegría Vides (May 12, 1924 – January 25, 2018), also known by her pseudonym Claribel Alegría, was a Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central A ...
,
Ernesto Cardenal
Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for ...
Carlos Montemayor
Carlos Montemayor (June 13, 1947 in Parral, Chihuahua – February 28, 2010 in Mexico City) was a Mexican novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, tenor, political analyst, and promoter of contemporary literature written in indigenous language ...
, and
Sergio Ramírez
Sergio Ramírez Mercado (; born 5 August 1942 in Masatepe, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who was a key figure in 1979 revolution, served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as vice president of ...
, Buenos Aires, Paris, Linz Am Rhien, Madrid, and Rome. Nominated for Best Documentary, 2003 by the
Argentine Film Critics Association
The Argentine Film Critics Association ( es, Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la Argentina) is an organization of Argentine-based journalists and correspondents. The association presents the ''Silver Condor Awards'' (''Premios Cóndor ...
.
* Los cuentos del timonel , (Tells of the Helmsman)Roca Escalante, Pilar. "Critique on Language and Political Emancipation in Contorno (1953–1959) University of Paraíba, Brazil. Cuadernos del CILHA a. 18 n. 26 2017 . References, page 153 Is a biographical sketch of journalist and historian Osvaldo Bayer. The film traces Bayer's life in Buenos Aires to the German colony in Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s. From this period Bayer evokes
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
's birthday as thousands celebrated it at the German Club – Club Albatros of Buenos Aires: "They came in into the streets of Belgrano in a caravan, often lead by the German Ambassador to Argentina Baron Edmund von Thurman. According to Bayer, when the ambassador arrived at the German Club the band will start playing Hitler's favorite tune the Badonviller Marsch. "Los cuentos del timonel" was awarded Best Documentary by the
Argentine Film Critics Association
The Argentine Film Critics Association ( es, Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la Argentina) is an organization of Argentine-based journalists and correspondents. The association presents the ''Silver Condor Awards'' (''Premios Cóndor ...
2002. Bayer also explores his relationship with Paco Urondo,
Julio Cortázar
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an ...
Osvaldo Soriano
Osvaldo Soriano (January 6, 1943 – January 29, 1997) was an Argentine journalist and writer.Osvaldo Soriano at the ,
Rodolfo Walsh
Rodolfo Jorge Walsh (January 9, 1927 – March 25, 1977) was an Argentine writer and journalist of Irish descent, considered the founder of investigative journalism. He is most famous for his '' Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta'', w ...
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known b ...
. Presented at the 12e Rencontres Cinémas d'Amerique Latine,
Toulouse
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, Mars 2000.Official Program of the 12th Film Festival of Latin American Cinema in Toulouse. Museo del Cine, Biblioteca. Buenos Aires. Nominated for a Cóndor de Plata.
* Ecce Homo , Documentary based on the last interview with
centenarian
A centenarian is a person who has reached the age of 100 years. Because life expectancies worldwide are below 100 years, the term is invariably associated with longevity. In 2012, the United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living cente ...
Juan Filloy
Juan Filloy (1 August 1894 – 15 July 2000) was an Argentine writer. At various times, he was also a swimmer and a boxing referee. He was a polyglot, speaking seven languages. Most of his life was spent in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Rio Cuarto where ...
, Produced in part with an award from
INCAA
The National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts ( es, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, INCAA; also referred to as the Argentine National Film Board) is an agency of the Government of Argentina. It promotes the Argentine ...
*
Osvaldo Soriano
Osvaldo Soriano (January 6, 1943 – January 29, 1997) was an Argentine journalist and writer.Osvaldo Soriano at the , Original title “Soriano”, the documentary had a theatrical release in Buenos Aires first before being presented in the US, on October 29, 1999, during the "Hispanic Literature and Film at the End of the Millennium Conference on Iberian-American Literature".
Florida International University
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.'' Produced in part with an award from
INCAA
The National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts ( es, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, INCAA; also referred to as the Argentine National Film Board) is an agency of the Government of Argentina. It promotes the Argentine ...
* Saavedra: Between Berlin and a place called Peixoto , Biographical documentary on Brazilian author Carola Saavedra. Filmed on location in
Berlin
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and
Rio de Janeiro
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. Saavedra premiered October 9, 2013, at Frankfurt International Book Fair. Official Selection Pedra Azul Film Festival. Filmmaker produces documentaries on Ronaldo Correia de Brito and José Luiz Passos.
Heritage Film Project
Heritage Film Project is a film-production studio and film distribution company established in Charlottesville since 2010. It was founded by Eduardo Montes-Bradley and Soledad Liendo in 2008.
Heritage Film Project produces documentaries on the art ...
Embassy of Brazil, Washington, D.C.
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The Chancery (offices) of the Embassy is located at 3006 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C., in ...
Carioca
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writer living in
Louisville
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. ...
where the documentary was filmed in February 2012. The film presents the writer and her perspectives on exile and literature, on living abroad and in a bilingual universe. ''Lisboa'' premiered on WHTJ PBS / WCVE PBS, Virginia, also aired by Rocky Mountain
PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of ed ...
. Italian Avant Premier with Italian subtitles at Festivaletteratura ,
Mantua
Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard language, Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, province of the same name.
In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture ...
, Italy on September 5, 2014, Heritage Film Project + Writers Made in Brazil, 2012. HD, 30 min. (English) Produced in part with a grant from the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations ,
Embassy of Brazil, Washington, D.C.
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The Chancery (offices) of the Embassy is located at 3006 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C., in ...
Eva Duarte
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* Eva (name), a feminine given name
Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters
* Eva (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book character by Dynamite Entertainment
* Eva (''Devil May Cry''), Dante's mother in ...
, former First Lady of Argentina. Evita, the illegitimate child without social or economic standing, was determined to make it big in the world of entertainment. Her love affair with a rising political star (
Juan Domingo Perón
''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of '' John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, ...
) transformed her into a vital part of Perón's plans to seduce a nation. The charming Evita became a skilled public speaker that fitted perfectly with politics in Argentina. Just imagine
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; 1 June 1926 4 August 1962) was an American actress. Famous for playing comedic " blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as wel ...
with the charisma of
Princess Diana
Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) and mother of Princes William and Harry. Her a ...
, elevated by
Joseph Goebbels
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's propaganda machine as the indisputable Spiritual Leader of the Nation. The documentary appears to be fair, perhaps the first biography on the subject that strives to be balanced. ''Evita'' was screened at the
Virginia Film Festival
The Virginia Film Festival is a film festival hosted by the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The festival is held annually, usually in late October or early November.
History
Cr ...
, in
Charlottesville
Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the county seat of Albemarle County, which surrounds the city, though the two are separate legal entities. It is named after Queen ...
, on November 4, 2011.
* Leon Rozitchner's Window, (La Ventana de Leon Rozitchner, USA, 2008) Montes-Bradley maintained a personal and epistolary relationship with Leon Rozitcher that lasted over fifteen years. During all that time the philosopher, a disciple of
Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty. (; 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest and ...
, objected to the invitation to talk in front of the camera. That window suddenly opened one day when the director came to visit. (17'). Anecdotical documentary with philosopher León Rozitchner.*
* The Unanimous Night, (USA, 2018). The public reappearance of Luis Harss arises from an interview with
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Tomás Eloy Martínez (July 16, 1934January 31, 2010) was an Argentine journalist and writer.
Life and work
He was born on July 16, 1934 in San Miguel de Tucumán and is generally considered an influential and innovative figure in Latin America ...
published in
La Nación
''La Nación'' () is an Argentine daily newspaper. As the country's leading conservative newspaper, ''La Nación''s main competitor is the more liberal '' Clarín''. It is regarded as a newspaper of record for Argentina.
Its motto is: "''La Na ...
in 2008. Shortly thereafter, Montes-Bradley begins a documentary dialogue in Mercersburg. In ''The Unanimous Night'', Harss refers to a visit by
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known b ...
and the relationship between biographer and subject. (5').
* Dialogue and Moisture, (USA, 2018). A short film by Montes-Bradley serves as a trigger with which Luis Harss evokes the place of privilege that nostalgia occupies in his perpetual exile. (5')
* Child of the Forest: The Story of Yona Bromberg. HFP, 2014. The film documents the memories of
Holocaust survivor
Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no universally accep ...
Yona Bromberg who recalls being herded -along with the rest of the Jews in Rokitno- to the market where the occupying German forces open machine-gun fire killing almost everyone. Yona Bromberg, her mother, and sister run for cover into the forest where they survived among other refugees until the arrival of the
Soviet Army
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. "Child of the Forest:" was filmed in
Hallandale
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.
* American Manifesto
Avantgarde
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short film premiered at
BAFICI
The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI, es, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) is an international festival of independent films organized each year in the month of April, in the city of ...
, 2005. Filmed in
Denver
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, during the winter of 1993.
* '' Che: Rise & Fall''. DVD Release Date: July 13, 2006, by Westlake Entertainment, German Release, 20007, Latin American premiered on
NatGeo
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. ''CHE: Rise and Fall'', follows on the trials and tribulations of
Ernesto Guevara
Ernesto Che Guevara (; 14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on /upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Ernesto_Guevara_Acta_de_Nacimiento.jpg his birth certificatewas 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted ...
in the words of old friends and comrades-in-arms. Includes the testimonies of Guevara's friend
Alberto Granado
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, and members of his elite military entourage Alberto Castellanos,
Enrique Oltuski
Enrique Oltuski Osacki (18 October 1930 — 16 December 2012) was a Cuban government minister who participated in the Cuban Revolution.
Biography
Oltuski was born in the city of Kobryn, then within the boundaries of Poland, currently part o ...
Havana
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, Congo,
Bolivia
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.
Super 16mm
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. Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
* Samba On Your Feet USA , Brazil 2005. The documentary explores behind the scenes of
Carnival
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in Rio, revealing the preambles of the cultural clash leading to
Samba
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, an indigenous cultural tradition in Brazil. ''Samba On Your Feet'' includes archival material and interviews with iconic figures of Brazilian Carnival and Samba. "''Samba On Your Feet" '' was selected to participate at the Toulouse Latin American Film Festival 2008, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival 2006, Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) 2007, and Toronto Latino Film Festival. The film is distributed by Filmmakers Library. Worldwide rights by Alexander Street Press. The documentary gained the recognition of African American Studies.Morris, Giles. "Local Filmmaker takes on the civil rights struggle..." C-Ville Weekly, November 1, 2012, p. 18
* Ismael Viñas: Witness of a Century. Original title: ''Ismael Viñas: Testigo del siglo''. Film based on the memoirs and recollections of Ismael Viñas: legendary political figure, economist, founder of Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MALENA), former Undersecretary of Culture during the
Revolución Libertadora
''Revolución Libertadora'' (; ''Liberating Revolution'') was the coup d'état that ended the second presidential term of Juan Perón in Argentina, on 16 September 1955.
Background
President Perón was first elected in 1946. In 1949, a c ...
. Viñas reappears in front of the camera after twenty-six years in self-imposed exile, first in Israel and finally in the US. During a series of conversations with Montes-Bradley in
Florida, USA
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, Viñas reflects on his youth, on his brother
David
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, on his father, a well political character during the times of
Hipólito Yrigoyen
Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen (; 12 July 1852 – 3 July 1933) was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union and two-time President of Argentina, who served his first term from 1916 to 1922 and his second ...
, and a Federal Judge in
Patagonia
Patagonia () refers to a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile. The region comprises the southern section of the Andes Mountains with lakes, fjords, temperate rainforests, and ...
during the uprisings portrayed in
Rebellion in Patagonia
''Rebellion in Patagonia'' ( es, La Patagonia rebelde) is a 1974 Argentine drama-historical film directed by Héctor Olivera and starring Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni, José Soriano and Federico Luppi. It was written by Olivera with Osvaldo Ba ...
in the early 1920s. Viñas also recalls his imprisonment during the
Peronist
Peronism, also called justicialism,. The Justicialist Party is the main Peronist party in Argentina, it derives its name from the concept of social justice., name=, group= is an Argentine political movement based on the ideas and legacy of Ar ...
period and with particular emphasis his relationship with Ernesto
Salvador Allende
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (, , ; 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. He was the firs ...
amongst other figures of the period. The film was acclaimed and criticize by extremist elements on the right and particularly on the left where the Ismael Viñas portrayed in the documentary was perceived as betraying the Marxist ideology he once embraced. Directed by Montes-Bradley as Diana Hunter. Premiered at the
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI, es, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) is an international festival of independent films organized each year in the month of April, in the city of B ...
.
* The Great Pretender. Official Selection of the International Film Festival of Buenos Aires (
BAFICI
The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI, es, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) is an international festival of independent films organized each year in the month of April, in the city of ...
), 2007. Released in
Uruguay
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as "No a los papelones". Release in Argentina as ''El gran simulador''. The documentary presents Montes-Bradley's quest to find Nahuel Maciel, a journalist who fifteen years before fooled the press core by posing as a native from the
Mapuche
The Mapuche ( (Mapuche & Spanish: )) are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who s ...
nation in
Patagonia
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. Disguised as Chief Nahuel the impostor sold alleged interviews with
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo () or Gabito () throughout Latin America. Considered one ...
,
Umberto Eco
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,
Mario Vargas Llosa
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and others to prestigious local newspapers such as El Cronista Comercial. Nahuel Maciel later published a book with a bogus interview with the Colombian Nobel Prize preceded by a foreword by
Eduardo Galeano
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. Montes-Bradley finally finds Maciel some 300 miles from
Buenos Aires
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in a frontier town called Gualeguaychú where Maciel was working close to the leadership of a group of
environmentalists
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politically incorrect
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. ''El gran simulador'' was initially banned from theatres in Argentina for its politics, and it was effectively released in
Uruguay
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(across the border) with good B.O. results. However, the film was shown as part of the Official Selection at (
BAFICI
The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI, es, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) is an international festival of independent films organized each year in the month of April, in the city of ...
), 2007. On the director's request the film did not participate "in competition" to avoid further turmoil. Two years later, in April 2008, ''El gran simulador'' was finally released in Argentina by Editorial Perfil, the opposition media conglomerate owned by Jorge Fontevecchia. HD , 75 min. 35 mm.
* Crónicas Mexicas. The documentary follows in the footsteps of
Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (; ; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish '' conquistador'' who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of w ...
from the landing beaches of
Veracruz
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on the golf coast of Mexico, to
Tenochtitlan
, ; es, Tenochtitlan also known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan, ; es, México-Tenochtitlan was a large Mexican in what is now the historic center of Mexico City. The exact date of the founding of the city is unclear. The date 13 March 1325 was ...
, the ancient capital of the
Aztec
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. Montes-Bradley (as Rita Clavel) teamed with Martín Caparrós who becomes the omnipresent protagonist of this journey through geography and time. Caparrós acute sense of irony becomes a permanent fixture throughout the film, provoking the audience into uncharted: the politically incorrect history of Latin America.
* Tríptico Vertical, USA 1986. Not much is known about the nearly fifteen minutes film made with the Madres de Plaza de Mayo. It was filmed in Buenos Aires after the return to democratic rule in 1983. Music by Julio Lacarra.
Experimental
* Frogments, (USA, 2000). Experimental work on images captured by
Julio Cortázar
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an ...
Allen Ginsberg
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. The gestation of this short film was part of the dialogue between the director and
Aurora Bernárdez
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during the investigation period that ended with Cortázar: notes form a documentary (2002) and Cortázar without a beard (
Random House Mondadori
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On April 2, 2020, Bertelsmann announced the completion of its purchase o ...
, 2004). (3').
* Freedom, (USA, 1986). Experimental work based on images captured by Montes-Bradley in 8 mm in and around Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami in which the filmmaker highlights the marginal precariousness of those who survive in the streets of the most prosperous nation. In this short film, the United States emerges as a society with the same conflicts as developing countries. (3').
Fiction
(The KidNapping) Satire-
Farce
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. El Sekuestro depicts an absurd revolutionary movement in Rio Hondo, a fictitious republic in Latin America. Bruno (Tobias Meincke) runs a
classified ad
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General
*Classified information, material that a government body deems to be sensitive
*Classified advertising or "classifieds"
Music
* Classified (rapper) (born 1977), Canadian rapper
* The Classified, a 1980s American r ...
to find partners for a kidnapping. Replying to the add are Carmen, street worker (Sandra Ballesteros), Mario (Adam Black) auto-worker, and Luis (Luis Fernández). The band kidnaps Renato Cefalú (Lázaro Pérez) and his wife (Alex Pertile) refuses to pay the ransom. Following the premiere at the
Mar del Plata International Film Festival
The Mar del Plata International Film Festival ( es, Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata) is an international film festival that takes place every November in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina. It is the only competitive feature fes ...
. The film is a political farce taking on the events that marked Argentine life during the 1970s. It has been said that the plot is an excuse to mock the struggle of the guerrilla organizations that confronted the military regime led by
Jorge Rafael Videla
Jorge Rafael Videla (; ; 2 August 1925 – 17 May 2013) was an Argentine military officer and dictator, Commander in Chief of the Army, member of the Military Junta, and ''de facto'' President of Argentina from 29 March 1976 to 29 March 1981. H ...
. ''El SeKuestro'' was filmed in
South Beach
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This area was the fi ...
in 1995.
Thriller. Starring
Margaux Hemingway
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Jamie Horton
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,
Maryam D'Abo
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Early life and education
Born in London to Georgian mother Nino Kvinitadze, daughter of General Giorgi Kvinitadze, a ...
and
Frederic Forrest
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. Edited by John Venzon. TriStar Columbia and Reivaj Films, 1992. The film did well with foreign distribution, particularly in the
straight to video
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and cable markets. ''Double Obsession'' was shot on 35mm at the
University of Colorado
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in
Boulder
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In ...
, a final transfer to video was later produced. Montes-Bradley hardly ever talks about this film written by himself in collaboration with Jeffrey Delman and Rick Marx. The film was initially referred to as ''Mirror Image''.
Thriller
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,
Film Noire
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. USA, 1992. Produced by Smoothtalker Productions. Story: "The woman who 976 numbers offer the men who call a world of erotic fantasy. But they never know who lurks on the other side of the line". Starring Blair (Lisa) Weikgenant as Lisa Charles, Peter Crombie as Jack Perdue,
Stuart Whitman
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as Lt. Gallagher, Sidney Lassick, Joe Guzaldo, Paul Raci as Peri and
Burt Ward
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. Edited by Sandra Adair. Executive Producer Javier Gracia. Original score by Tony Roman; Production Design by Brian Densmore. US Release: June 18, 1992
Music videos
Montes-Bradley directed music videos at odds with the dominant trends at a time in which ''MTV'' was still in the experimental stage. ''Rumbera'' (''trad.'' a woman who dances the
rumba
The term rumba may refer to a variety of unrelated music styles. Originally, "rumba" was used as a synonym for "party" in northern Cuba, and by the late 19th century it was used to denote the complex of secular music styles known as Cuban rumba. ...
), is a song by
Willy Chirino
Willy Chirino (born April 5, 1947, in Consolación del Sur, Pinar del Río, Cuba) is a Cuban-American musician.
Early life
Following the communist revolution in Cuba, Chirino came to the United States in 1960 as part of Operation Peter Pan, ...
, (
Sony Music
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, 1994. "Rumbera", the
videoclip
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based on Willy Chirino's song is a film extravaganza shot in the style of the neorealism with magic realism undertones. The seven-minute short was filmed in a single take, in the interior of a cabaret in
South Beach
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This area was the fi ...
. The
Cameraman
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In filmmaking, ...
and
Director of Photography
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...
was Scott Mumford. ''Rumbera'' opened the doors for other salsa music videos to be regularly programmed in ''MTV Latino'', until then, exclusively reserved for Rock, Pop, and ballads from South American and
Spaniard
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bands and soloists. ''Rumbera'', was filmed in
Super 16mm
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and premiered in
Havana
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,
Cuba
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Olga Guillot
Olga Guillot (October 9, 1922 – July 12, 2010) was a Cuban singer who was known as the "Queen of Bolero". She was a native of Santiago de Cuba.
Biography
Daughter of Catalan-Jewish immigrants who moved to Cuba, her father was a tailor and her ...
, and several other Cuban artists were blacklisted in their homeland.''Dale Pascual'' (
Warner Music Group
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) by the Argentine pop-group "Los enanitos verdes" was shot in
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* 35 mm movie film
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in
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*Florinda la Cava, a figure of Spanish legend
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* Nicholas la Cava (born 1986), American rower ...
, 27 miles North of CABA. The song speaks of the hardships of the impoverished immigrants living in Argentina.
La Cava La Cava may refer to:
Legend
*Florinda la Cava, a figure of Spanish legend
People
* Francesco La Cava (1876–1958), Italian physician and writer
*Gregory La Cava (1892–1952), American film director
* Nicholas la Cava (born 1986), American rower ...
provided the ideal setting, typical of neo-realism, a recurrent theme on Montes-Bradley's music videos, which emphasized the hard living conditions of the children in poverty. In the film, the director staged the crucifixion of a nude boy representing poverty. The image, of a large wooden cross laying against the walls of a public school, with the Argentine flag on a high mast in the background was censored in several countries. "Dale Pascual" was the last music video produced and directed by Montes-Bradley.
Bibliography
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Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici (14 May 1900 – 10 May 1977) was an Argentina, Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.
Biography
A native of Florence, Soffici moved to Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in ...
.
''Los dedos del huracán''. Short story. Children Literature. Included on "De Ola en Ola 3" School Textbook for
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Examples of the American syllabus
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Bio-bibliographical essay on .
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Julio Cortázar
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an ...
, a fundamental name of the
Latin American Boom
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, Montes-Bradley exposes the strategies used to build Cortázar: the myth, simultaneously providing the arguments to challenge such myths while questioning Cortázar's political affiliations.
A quick reference search on
Google Scholar
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will show that "Cortázar sin Barba" has been widely cited by critics and scholars alike. The first edition of ''Cortázar sin barba'' was published by Editorial Sudamericana, Argentina, 2004. A Third Edition (revised) was presented in Barcelona by Pesódromo 21 on September 30, 2014.
Bilingual Anthology of Short Stories. Selection of awarded works at the Literary Award "Agua no terceiro Milenio", Brazil. Published in Portuguese and Spanish. Pilar Editors,
Brasília
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, 2000. P. 142, 143, 144. Includes the short story "Das schwerste gewicht" previously published in "Ya se que todo es mentira" (1999), Editorial del Nuevo Extremo, Buenos Aires 1999.
Italian edition by
Sperling & Kupfer
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore () is the biggest publishing company in Italy.
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The company was founded in 1907 in Ostiglia by 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori who began his publishing career with the publication of the magazine ''Luce!''. In 19 ...
Editori,
Milan
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, Italy, 2001, 164pp. Translated by Gina Maneri. Collection: ''Continente Desaparecido'', directed and coordinated by
Gianni Minà
Gianni Minà (; Turin, 17 May 1938) is an Italian journalist, writer, magazine editor and television host. He has collaborated with both Italian and International newspapers and magazines; produced hundreds of reports for RAI (''Radiotelevisione ...
. The book summons a series of interviews including:
Ariel Dorfman
Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is an Argentine-Chilean- American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin Americ ...
,
Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Hughes Galeano (; 3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left".
Galean ...
Fernando Birri
Fernando Birri (March 13, 1925 – December 27, 2017) was an Argentine film maker and theorist. He was considered by many to be the father of the new Latin American cinema.
Biography
Birri was born in Santa Fe, Argentina. After being involved in ...
Roberto Cossa
Roberto Cossa (born November 30, 1934) is a prominent Argentinian playwright and theatre director.
Life and work
Roberto Cossa was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised in the quiet residential borough of Villa del Parque. He first acte ...
, Liliana Hecker,
Federico Luppi
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Dalmiro Saenz Dalmiro is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Dalmiro Finol (1920–1994), Venezuelan baseball player
* Dalmiro Sáenz (1926–2016), Argentinian writer and playwright
* (1905–1994), Argentinian military personnel
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,
Gianni Minà
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and others. One of the recurrent themes through the book is the idea of exile,
Peronism
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, and the political turmoil in Argentina during the 1970s. The interviews were previously documented by the author in a documentary film on the same subject. There are also a few chapters, an introduction, and an epilogue by Montes-Bradley with a significant number of footnotes and references. The book also includes correspondence between Osvaldo Soriano and
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Bioy Casares (; 15 September 1914 – 8 March 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. He is the author of the Fan ...
,
Julio Cortázar
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an ...
, and
Juan Gelman
Juan Gelman (3 May 1930 – 14 January 2014) was an Argentine poet. He published more than twenty books of poetry between 1956 and his death in early 2014. He was a naturalized citizen of Mexico, country where he arrived as a political exile of th ...
.
trad. ''I know it Its All Lies''. Short Stories. Some of the short stories included in this compilation have been originally published in literary magazines. Foreword by Osvaldo Bayer. 199 pp. 23 cm. Foreword by Osvaldo Bayer. Design by Oscar "Negro" Díaz.
''Senxo'', Selected Poems. Editorial Grupo Archivo de Comunicación, New York City, 1984. Foreword by Armando Tejada Gómez. Out of print.
Journalism
Montes-Bradley has contributed to the following publications:
El País
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It is the second most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . ''El ...
, Babelia, ''Les cinemas de la Amerique Latine'' by the ''Association Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse'' France; ''La Jornada'',
México
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; 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
Venado Tuerto () (Spanish for ''One Eyed Deer'') is a city in the south-west of the , 322 km from the provincial capital. It has about 76,000 inhabitants ().
History
Venado Tuerto was founded on April 26, 1884 by Eduardo Casey, born in ...
, Suplemento ''Radar'' published by ''Página/12'', ''El Amante de cine'', "Diario Perfil," "Revista Ñ" Clarin, ''Critica de Argentina''; and
La Nación
''La Nación'' () is an Argentine daily newspaper. As the country's leading conservative newspaper, ''La Nación''s main competitor is the more liberal '' Clarín''. It is regarded as a newspaper of record for Argentina.
Its motto is: "''La Na ...
. Montes-Bradley was a frequent collaborator with the literary blog "Nación Apache."
His interventions in the media can be classified as a. In-depth articles on subjects as diverse as the life of
Dean Reed
Dean Cyril Reed (September 22, 1938 – June 13, 1986) was an American actor, singer-songwriter, director, and social activist who lived a great part of his adult life in South America and then in East Germany. Nicknamed the Red Elvis, Reed was ...
in the Soviet Union, and the aftermath of the
Battleship Potemkin
'' Battleship Potemkin'' (russian: Бронено́сец «Потёмкин», ''Bronenosets Potyomkin''), sometimes rendered as ''Battleship Potyomkin'', is a 1925 Soviet silent
drama film produced by Mosfilm. Directed and co-written by S ...
; b. Sudden and brief pieces on current affairs with a particular emphasis on domestic politics in Argentina. One of Montes-Bradley's bull's eyes of choice appears to be the National Institute of Cinematography (INCAA) a government institution repeatedly denounced for corruption, censorship and the discretionary handling of public resources. c. Letters to the Editor. In this, the most singular form of interventionism Montes-Bradley has written a considerable number of ''letters to the editors'' becoming a regular ''de facto'' columnist.
Photography
Montes-Bradley's photography has been recognized by the
National Council on Public History
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with the "Outstanding Public History Project Award" as part of the exhibit "The Mere Distinction of Colour" produced by James Madison's Montpelier. His work appeared in ''
The Atlantic
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It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
'',
The Washington Post
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The New York Times
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,
The Independent
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, Deutsche Welle, Diario Clarin other newspapers and magazines as well as commemorative books such as "Escenas de la memoria. La Casa Argentina en la voz de sus antiguos residentes", and "Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center 20th Anniversary". His portraits and filmed interviews with Research and Clinical Faculty are preserved at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, the University of Virginia under The Eduardo Montes-Bradley Photograph and Film Collection.
Awards and honors
* ''Alice: At Home With Alice Parker'' Grand Jury Prize, Mystic Film Festival, 2021
* Eduardo Montes-Bradley was awarded the title of Regent's Lecturer (2015–2016), by the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
University of California-Los Angeles
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(UCLA).
* ''A Soldier's Dream:'' Best Documentary International Historical and Military Films Festival,
Warsaw
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2018; Best Feature Documentary Port Orchard Film Festival,
Seattle
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, 2019
* ''The Mere Distinction of Colour'' Photo Exhibit at James Madison's Montpelier: Outstanding Public History Project Award by the
National Council on Public History
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(shared)
* ''White: A Season in the Life of John Borden Evans'': Best Documentary, "White, a Season in the Life of John Borden Evans". Richmond International Film Festival.; Best Documentary Film 6th International Documentary Festival of
Ierapetra
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History
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Buenos Aires
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International Film Festival,
BAFICI
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2007; Official Selection
Toronto
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Latino Film Festival, 2007
* ''Tells of the Helmsman'': Best Documentary Silver Cóndor Award, 2002, Awarded by the
Argentine Film Critics Association
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* '' Harto The Borges'': Official Selection 12e Rencontres Cinémas d'Amerique Latine.
Toulouse
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Rio de Janeiro
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Margaux Hemingway
Margaux Louise Hemingway (born Margot Louise Hemingway; February 16, 1954 – July 1, 1996) was an American fashion model and actress. She gained success as a supermodel in the mid-1970s, appearing on the covers of magazines including ''Cosmopo ...
produced for the series ''
E! True Hollywood Story
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'' by
E! Entertainment Television
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. USA, 1996.
*''Jorge Giannoni. NN, ése soy yo'' (NN, The One in the Picture Is Me). Documentary film by Gabriela Jaime on
Jorge Giannoni
Jorge Gianonni (1939 — 1995) was an independent Argentine filmmaker.
One of the milestones of his career on film was his collaboration in Raymundo Gleyzer’s ''La tierra quema'', shot in Northeastern Brazil; also in Brazil, he collaborated wi ...
Argentina, 2000.
*''Derrumbe''. Guebel, Daniel (Fiction). Random House Mondadori, 2012. Eduardo Montes-Bradley is EMB, a fictional character.
*''Mis escritores muertos''. Guebel, Daniel (Fiction). Random House Mondadori, 2012. Eduardo Montes-Bradley is EMB, a fictional character.
* ''Zenitram''. A film by Luis Barone. Montes-Bradley plays the part of a physician in a surreal context. Argentina, 2010.International Movie Data Base /ref>
*''Man maste ju leva''. Actor. Directed by Margareta Vinterheden. Sweden, 1978.
References
External links
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# Roca, Pilar ''Las vidas paralelas de Montes-Bradley'' Grupo Archivo de Comunicación. New York, 2010. University of Virginia Libraries; University of Virginia Library; UVa Librar # Abos, Alvaro ''Xul Solar: Pintor del misterio.'' Sudamericana, 2004. p. 289
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