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Eduardo Montes-Bradley is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Executive producer and Editor American born on 9 july 1960

Eduardo Montes-Bradley

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Nationality USA
Birth 9 july 1960 (64 years)

Eduardo Montes-Bradley (born July 9, 1960) is a writer-filmmaker. He has written and directed biographical film portraits on writers, composers, artists and intellectuals. His documentary Samba On Your Feet, a study on the origins of Samba traditions in Brazil, gained the recognition of African American Studies departments in campuses across the US. Most recently, the Virginia Film Festival premiered Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement. He was awarded a Silver Condor in 2002 for his portrayal of Osvaldo Bayer in "Tells of the Helmsman" (Los cuentos del timonel). Montes-Bradley has also written biographical essays and articles on Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Julian Bond, and Rita Dove amongst others literary and political figures. Montes-Bradley resides in the United States since 1978.

Usually with

Osvaldo Bayer
Osvaldo Bayer
(2 films)
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
(2 films)
María Eva Duarte de Perón
María Eva Duarte de Perón
(1 films)
Tia Surica
Tia Surica
(1 films)
Aída Bortnik
Aída Bortnik
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Eduardo Montes-Bradley (12 films)

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Actor

Che: Rise & Fall
Che: Rise & Fall (2007)
, 1h
Directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Rating75% 3.7841053.7841053.7841053.7841053.784105
De sa maissance jusqu’à sa mort, de ses années de médecine en Amérique Latine jusqu’à son adhésion au mouvement du 26 juiillet, du tribunal révolutionnaire cubain jusqu’aux jungles du Congo et de la Bolivie : ce documentaire extraordinaire retrace la vie d’Ernesto Guevara, plus connu sous le nom de Che Guevara ou Le Che. Le Dr Alberto Granados, compagnon de moto du Che, ainsi que trois survivants de la guardia de Hierro du Che nous livrent leurs souvenirs et leurs témoignages sur celui qui est devenu une icone pour les mouvements révolutionnaires marxistes du monde entier.

Director

Rita Dove: An American Poet
Rita Dove: An American Poet (2014)
, 50minutes
Directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about writers

The film is made of a series of in-depth, on-camera interviews with Poet Laureate Rita Dove—conducted and recorded between September 2012 and October 2013. These interviews were edited with hundreds of still images and several hours of home movies from the Dove family's collection. The intimacy of the dialogue between Rita Dove and Montes-Bradley's camera provide a rare personal insight into the wide range of Dove's artistic passions. Most of these images are the results of the efforts of Rita Dove's father (Ray A. Dove) to record family life in the 1950s and 1960s. Mr. Ray Dove recorded in 8mm and Super 8mm birthdays, the opening of gifts on Christmas Day year after year, holidays and family excursions. According to the filmmaker, "Rita's father is omnipresent and perhaps the silent protagonist of the film as he captured images of Rita which have become fundamental clues to the evolution of the suburban middle class African American child into the celebrated poet we know and recognize.
Monroe Hill
Monroe Hill (2014)
, 52minutes
Directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Origin USA

Through a number of interviews with experts and academics, Monroe Hill unearths the history of the site that contains the last remaining structures of the late 18th century southern plantation. These surviving structures are silent witnesses to Monroe’s struggle as a farmer and a politician from 1789 through 1817. The film includes the chapter of James Monroe's life as Minister to France and his relationship with Thomas Paine, Tom Wolfe, Adrienne de La Fayette, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.
Julian Bond - Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement
Julian Bond - Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement (2012)
, 30minutes
Directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Documentary
Themes Films about racism, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films

The film is built around an in-depth interview with Julian Bond, by Eduardo Montes-Bradley at the Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, D.C., along with the last few lectures that he delivered, as a member of faculty, at the University of Virginia in May 2012. The interviews are bolstered by a barrage of photographs and archival footage taken from different sources. These images help define and illustrate the different historical eras beginning with the American Civil War and running up to the 2008 US presidential election.
Calzada
Calzada (2010)
, 30minutes
Directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Origin USA

Che: Rise & Fall
Che: Rise & Fall (2007)
, 1h
Directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Rating75% 3.7841053.7841053.7841053.7841053.784105
De sa maissance jusqu’à sa mort, de ses années de médecine en Amérique Latine jusqu’à son adhésion au mouvement du 26 juiillet, du tribunal révolutionnaire cubain jusqu’aux jungles du Congo et de la Bolivie : ce documentaire extraordinaire retrace la vie d’Ernesto Guevara, plus connu sous le nom de Che Guevara ou Le Che. Le Dr Alberto Granados, compagnon de moto du Che, ainsi que trois survivants de la guardia de Hierro du Che nous livrent leurs souvenirs et leurs témoignages sur celui qui est devenu une icone pour les mouvements révolutionnaires marxistes du monde entier.
Samba On Your Feet
Samba On Your Feet (2005)
, 1h
Directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Origin USA
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Tia Surica
Rating68% 3.4013853.4013853.4013853.4013853.401385
In Samba On Your Feet (2006) the filmmakers go behind the Carioca milieu to document samba and carnival. The one-hour documentary traces the influences that contributed to shape the music that consecrated Carnival as one of the most powerful cultural manifestations in Brazil. Roots and perspectives, flesh and ghosts, entities and divinities spread across the slums and over the sidewalks of Salvador, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro are essential to the make-up of the Brazilian musical exponent par excellence. Samba On Your Feet introduces the voices of Cartola, Caetano Veloso, Ismael Silva, Clara Nunes, Clementina and many others whose perspectives on the cultural affairs of Rio de Janeiro that have been carefully articulated with interviews to exponents of the Brazilian culture today. This dialogue between past and present takes place throughout the movie between precious scenes of archive footage from private collection, and government resources. Samba On Your Feet was mostly shot in the marginal slums, in the umbanda terreiros, in the favelas where the less fortunate inhabitants of Rio strive to overcome overwhelming rates crime and illiteracy to the rhythm and soul of the music they call samba.
Harto The Borges
Harto The Borges (2000)
, 1h20
Directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about writers, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Jorge Luis Borges, Osvaldo Bayer
Rating60% 3.0377553.0377553.0377553.0377553.037755
Montes-Bradley approaches Jorge Luis Borges on film. The portrait of Borges emerges as a counterpoint to the interviewees, some of which evoke scandal and most of which cut through stereotypes and presuppositions surrounding this key figure. The title of the film is a reference to a quote from the poem “Borges and I”, slightly modify to pay a tribute to the writer´s billings. The strategy employed by Montes-Bradley when it comes to Borges, a writer of whom almost everything has been said, consists on giving the word to the writer himself and to a select group of intellectuals who dwell on the margins of the Argentine cultural aparatik. Montes-Bradley, however, does not exhibit Borges like a painting to be admired but rather as counterpoint to the observations of others. We are neither the hapless witnesses of another saccharine celebration of Jorge Luis Borges, nor are we forced to endure another fashionable defrocking of an idol. The Borges that emerges from the interaction of the testimonies in this documentary surges from the heat of the debate, from the strong opinions, some certainly scandalous, most politically incorrect.

Scriptwriter

Rita Dove: An American Poet
Rita Dove: An American Poet (2014)
, 50minutes
Directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about writers

The film is made of a series of in-depth, on-camera interviews with Poet Laureate Rita Dove—conducted and recorded between September 2012 and October 2013. These interviews were edited with hundreds of still images and several hours of home movies from the Dove family's collection. The intimacy of the dialogue between Rita Dove and Montes-Bradley's camera provide a rare personal insight into the wide range of Dove's artistic passions. Most of these images are the results of the efforts of Rita Dove's father (Ray A. Dove) to record family life in the 1950s and 1960s. Mr. Ray Dove recorded in 8mm and Super 8mm birthdays, the opening of gifts on Christmas Day year after year, holidays and family excursions. According to the filmmaker, "Rita's father is omnipresent and perhaps the silent protagonist of the film as he captured images of Rita which have become fundamental clues to the evolution of the suburban middle class African American child into the celebrated poet we know and recognize.