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- A few have tried to play the role in the theater and in the movies, but only one has succeeded thus far. Her name was Eva Duarte de Peron and the world would come to know her as Evita.
- The Italian Factor explores the legacy of Italian sculptors who contributed to the emergence of public art in the United States. The idea for this film came about during the production of Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor.
- As Julian Bond traces his roots back to slavery, the audience is confronted with a unique opportunity to observe the 20th century through the eyes of one of its key witnesses. Now in his seventies, the veteran Civil Rights leader recounts his days as a child in the segregated South, growing up in a home frequently visited by intellectuals like Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes. In an intimate conversation with director Montes-Bradley, Bond examines his role in the Civil Rights movement, his opposition to the war in Vietnam, his views on religion, and the struggle to secure a seat in Georgia's legislature.
- A preservation document of historical proportions. Several key interviews with dignitaries and representatives of the Jewish community in America.
- From the early 1700s to the Civil War enslaved and free Black fiddlers performed the music for dances and house parties hosted by elite plantation owners at their farms and townhouses in the American south.
- A series of in-depth, on-camera interviews with Poet Laureate Rita Dove conducted and recorded between September 2012 and October 2013 are edited with still images and clips from the Dove familys home-movie collection to create the documentary film, Rita Dove: An American Poet a biographical sketch by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. The result is a very biographical sketch of one of Americas most celebrated poets. Most of the still images and home movies used in this film are the results of the pioneering efforts of Ritas father to record his familys life in the 1950s and 1960s. Ray Dove was a research chemist for the rubber industry in Akron, Ohio, as well as an amateur astronomer and avid photographer. His presence is felt throughout the film as the watchful eye behind the images used to contextualize and develop Ritas unique story. The film follows her journey from her middle-class childhood to her college years and on through her early travels abroad. The soundtrack is based on elements from Tower of the Eight Winds by Judith Shatin. The intimacy of the dialogue between Rita Dove and Montes-Bradleys camera gives the audience rare personal insight into the wide range of Doves artistic passions. The 2011 National Medal of the Arts award, talks about her enduring kinship with music and her lifelong love affair with the cello. The future Poet Laureate also tells of her experiences on a family excursion to México (her first trip abroad) where she describes, for the first time, her intimate connection with the murals of Diego Rivera. At the end of this sequence, Dove delivers a reading of the celebrated poem Perejil. The films varied sequences are tied together by a series of readings by Ms. Doverecorded at the home of Montes-Bradley in Charlottesville, VAthat serve either to set the theme for the upcoming sequence, or to call up a particular memory, irrupting into one of Montes-Bradleys signature intricate editing patterns. In one such reading, Dove evokes her relationship with her grandfather, the main character of the title poem of her book Thomas and Beulah, a collection of Doves poems for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987. "Rita Dove: An American Poet" is the intimate and noteworthy portrait of a woman who emerged from the profound social transformations of the 1960s as a singular voice and went on to become a distinguished bard, decorated with the highest artistic honors of the land.
- One World, The Art of Joy Brown is a documentary film that shows the creative process behind sculptor and ceramist Joy Brown as she envisions and executes a monumental ceramic mural called ONE WORLD for a children's museum in Japan.
- Biographical sketch on Virginian artist John Borden Evans. Film entirely during the winter of 2014.
- Biographical sketch on Julius John Lankes, American artist.
- This is the documented story of Peter Paul Weinschenk, who fled Berlin in 1933 to become Pablo in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and Tabernero in the Argentina of Perón and Evita.
- Author Bettye Kearse, narrates the extraordinary saga of her family, multiple generations descendants of slaves, and James Madison, president of the United States of America.
- This is a biographical sketch, a documentary on Andres WaissmanÂ's life and work.
- In "Alice," Parker collaborates with Montes-Bradley in a series of intimate conversations about her collaborations Robert Shaw, Archibald McLeish, and Eudora Welty, and subjects such as Emily Dickinson or Martin Luther King.
- Film commissioned by the President's Commission on Slavery and University at the University of Virginia. Premiered at the October symposium, 2014.
- This short documentary film is a direct-to-camera approach by Juan Alberto Montes in which he speaks to future generations about the role of youth in the political process of Argentina. The film was made in 8mm. Juan Alberto Donato Montes Bradley, was born on December 12, 1902 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.] Surveyor, Historian, and Trustee of the Historical Society of Rosario, author of numerous articles and essays. In 1973 Juan A. Montes was appointed by Héctor José Cámpora, then president of Argentina, as Dean of the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN). At the time, Montes was closely affiliated with the left wing of the Peronist known as Montoneros. His son, Roald, a Montonero, was killed in what became known as the Battle of La Plata along with several other partisans in (November, 1976) during the first months of the military coup led by General Jorge Rafael Videla. Juan A. Montes remained as Rector of the UTN throughout the third presidential period of Juan Domingo Perón. The events of 1976 led Juan A. Montes into a self-imposed exile in Rosario where he became involved in the research of the facts leading to the founding of the City Rosario, the results were later published under the title: Santiago Montenegro, fundador de la ciudad de Rosario Juan Alberto Montes died in Rosario, Santa Fe, on June 30, 1986.
- This is a biographical sketch on Brazilian writer Adriana Lisboa. Her novel "Symphony in White" recipient of José Saramago Award served as an inspiration to the director to conceive a documentary along the same narrative lines. The film was shot in and around Bolder, Colorado, USA on February 2012. Premiered on Richmond PBS on August 12, 2012
- A television program celebrating Jorge Luis Borge's 80th birthday serves Montes-Bradley to amplify the dialogue with others, including those who, like Mick Jagger, Héctor Babenco, Humberto Ecco, and Bernardo Bertolucci, has delved into Borges's imagination to create their masterpieces on the screen. Particularly relevant are here the interventions of Franco Lucentini and Martin Caparrós. The result is highly entertaining and thought-provoking, leaving the audience with a much deeper understanding of Jorge Luis Borges and the literature. Whether you're a passionate reader or an avid admirer of Borges, this early, and awarded documentary by Montes-Bradley, promises to be a captivating experience.
- Jared Loewenstein is Founder and Curator of the Jorge Luis Borges Collection at the University of Virginia. The film portraits a man whose commitment, and dedication were instrumental in the preservation of Jorge Luis Borges's documents.
- Cuban-American artist Humerto Calzada rebuilds on canvas the Havana he remembers. In the process he draws a profile of Cuban exile in America, and his own biography.