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HERITAGE FILM PROJECT
ART, MUSIC, AND MEMORY THROUGH FILM
A Curated Catalogue: Documentary Trilogies Now Available for Institutional Programming
A catalogue of documentary films actively curated into programs designed to reach their rightful audience. Four trilogies — on the American Renaissance, Latin American literature, African American history, and three unparalleled women in the arts — now available for institutional programming, with more to come.
Heritage Film Project
2 days ago3 min read
An Hour with Leon Botstein
Leon Botstein had agreed to sit before our camera earlier in the year, but a sequence of inconveniences pushed our meeting past the date we had set for the avant-première at the Century. When the interview finally happened, at his residence at Bard, he gave us not an answer but an essay — on Bristow, Dvořák, the modern piano, and the long, unfinished business of figuring out what America sounds like.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
3 days ago5 min read
Daniel Chester French, The Piccirilli Factor, and George Bristow: An Unexpected Trilogy Across Art, Music, and Cultural History
How three documentaries — on Daniel Chester French, the Piccirilli Brothers, and George Frederick Bristow — became, almost by accident, a trilogy about the nineteenth-century American search for a cultural identity. A reflection on sculpture, music, authorship, and the long shadow of Massa-Carrara.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
6 days ago3 min read
Monroe Hill: James Monroe's Farm During the Reign of Terror, Cradle of the University of Virginia
James Monroe owned Monroe Hill from 1789 to 1799 — the exact decade of the French Revolution, with most of it spent in Paris during the Reign of Terror. A note on the film, the Jefferson Trust, the absent landlord whose hill became the cradle of the University of Virginia, a rumor of Monroe's face in David's Coronation of Napoleon, and the unmarked grave of his daughter Eliza at Père Lachaise — a few rows from Jim Morrison.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
13 hours ago8 min read
Romania to Saskatchewan: A Jewish Odyssey | Rabbi Tuffs
A documentary portrait of Romanian Jewish settlers on the Saskatchewan prairie — told through the reflections of Rabbi Tuffs — tracing the flight from persecution, the hardship of sod dwellings, the tragedy of a woman buried near the fence, and the Talmudic warning that no amount of land is worth separating yourself from the community.
Heritage Film Project
2 days ago7 min read
A Curated Catalogue: Documentary Trilogies Now Available for Institutional Programming
A catalogue of documentary films actively curated into programs designed to reach their rightful audience. Four trilogies — on the American Renaissance, Latin American literature, African American history, and three unparalleled women in the arts — now available for institutional programming, with more to come.
Heritage Film Project
2 days ago3 min read
Rita Dove's "Sonata Mulattica" to the Screen
We're thrilled to announce our upcoming documentary project that promises to be one of our most ambitious and compelling films yet. Following the success of our previous collaboration on "Rita Dove: An American Poet," we're reuniting with the legendary poet laureate Rita Dove to bring her critically acclaimed work "Sonata Mulattica" to cinematic life.
Heritage Film Project
Aug 17, 20255 min read
Rediscovering "Black Fiddlers"
If this film moves you, if you believe in the power of documentary storytelling to change hearts and minds, we invite you to support our next projects through a tax-deductible contribution to the Documentary Film Fund.
Heritage Film Project
Aug 13, 20252 min read
An Invitation to Watch Films: Explore Our Documentary Collection
Documentary Film Fund invites you to discover a curated selection of my documentary films, now available to stream for free with your public library card or university login at Kanopy.com
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Jun 27, 20252 min read
Victoria Ocampo: The Visionary Feminist Who Understood Women Better Than She Understood Mussolini
On my desk sits a first edition of Domingos en Hyde Park, published by Ediciones Sur, Buenos Aires, 1936. On the flyleaf, in a confident cursive hand: "A R. E. Montes Bradley, con toda simpatía — Victoria Ocampo." The essay it introduces — La Historia Viva — is one of the most remarkable political documents written by a Latin American intellectual in the twentieth century. It is remarkable not because Ocampo admired Mussolini. Many did. Between 1921 and 1935, Franklin D. Roos
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Apr 1815 min read
Black History — The Umbilical Cord: What Brazil and Cuba Kept That America Lost
A filmmaker's meditation on the African diaspora across Brazil, Cuba, and the United States — beginning in a restaurant in California in the early 1980s and arriving, decades later, at the Bay of Guanabara, where historian Haroldo Costa offered the sentence that changed everything: We did not cut the umbilical cord. The first in a series of essays exploring Black History not as a month but as a living, continuous thread.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Apr 156 min read
Ana María Shua y los orígenes de un proyecto continental
A partir de una carta escrita por Ana María Shua en 2002 en apoyo al proyecto Perfiles, este ensayo recorre el origen de una iniciativa que, con el tiempo, se expandió hasta convertirse en un cuerpo de obra documental de alcance continental. Desde Argentina hacia las Américas, el Heritage Film Project explora la memoria cultural a través de artistas, escritores y creadores cuyas historias revelan los vínculos profundos entre identidad, migración y creación.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Mar 254 min read
A Curated Catalogue: Documentary Trilogies Now Available for Institutional Programming
A catalogue of documentary films actively curated into programs designed to reach their rightful audience. Four trilogies — on the American Renaissance, Latin American literature, African American history, and three unparalleled women in the arts — now available for institutional programming, with more to come.
Heritage Film Project
2 days ago3 min read
Daniel Chester French, The Piccirilli Factor, and George Bristow: An Unexpected Trilogy Across Art, Music, and Cultural History
How three documentaries — on Daniel Chester French, the Piccirilli Brothers, and George Frederick Bristow — became, almost by accident, a trilogy about the nineteenth-century American search for a cultural identity. A reflection on sculpture, music, authorship, and the long shadow of Massa-Carrara.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
6 days ago3 min read
The Piccirillis’ Warm Reception in France and Germany
As of today, the prestigious European network ARTE is broadcasting a short exposé on the extraordinary work of the Piccirilli Brothers in America. The piece, produced in New York by Jennifer and Edward Luby, was inspired by the documentary "The Piccirilli Factor" and John Freeman Gill’s feature article in The New York Times.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Oct 14, 20251 min read
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