LIFE AND MUSIC IN THE AGE OF GEORGE BRISTOW
An immensely ambitious film. I know of no other like it. Necessary, courageous, and undertaken with remarkable enthusiasm and resourcefulness. -- Joseph Horowitz
This film is magnificent, and vividly illustrates how a distinctive American musical style gradually emerged, increasingly breaking away from European models. -- Klaus Martin Kopitz.
WORK IN PROGRESS
PAUL CHALEFF
For more than four decades, Paul Chaleff has worked building a body of ceramic sculpture that bridges the ancient and the contemporary. A new documentary will follows his process, and the world he has built around his work.
Filming ON LOCATION in September, 2026 YouTube
IN DEVELOPMENT
THE LOST REPUBLIC
A documentary on the Cuban Republic (1902–1959), the vibrant and contradictory nation that flourished between independence and revolution — and the memory of a world that vanished. An exploration of Music, Fine Arts and Literature in the Republican period. Produced with the support of the University of Miami's Cuban Heritage Collection and FIU's Casa Cuba, with Carolina Calzada serving as Executive Director. YouTube Playlist.
NEWS
THE PICCIRILLI FACTOR
Our film had its European premiered on August 4, with a full and enthusiastic house at the gardens of Villa Rinchiostra, in Massa with Montes-Bradley in attendance.
Coming Soon
October 8, 2026 | Peoria Fine Arts Society, Illinois. Screening of The Piccirilli Factor, followed by a Q&A with director Montes-Bradley.
September 11, 2026 | Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri. Screening of The Piccirilli Factor, followed by a Q&A with director Montes-Bradley.
ON LOCATION
At the turn of the twentieth century, four men from Valencia began, in very different ways, to transform how Americans experienced and imagined Spain. Rafael Guastavino reshaped the architecture of New York with vaults of brick and tile, Joaquín Sorolla captured America through the brilliance of light, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez captivated readers and audiences with his novels and ideas, and Joaquín Rodrigo brought a new vision of Spanish music to the concert hall.
Their intersecting journeys reveal an extraordinary dialogue between architecture, painting, literature, and music, and uncover a larger story of cultural exchange between Valencia and the United States. Together, Guastavino, Sorolla, Blasco, and Rodrigo illuminate how four Valencians, each arriving at a different moment and through a different medium, helped shape American cultural life and the image of Spain that continues to resonate today.
October 4, 2026 Black Fiddlers | Light House, Vinegar Hill Theatre. Charlottesville, Virginia.
October 8, 2026 | Peoria Fine Arts Society, Illinois. Screening of The Piccirilli Factor, followed by a Q&A with director Montes-Bradley.
September 27 , 2026| Richmond Int'l Film Festival, Virginia. The Art of Joy Brown. Official Selection
September 11, 2026 | Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri. Screening of The Piccirilli Factor, followed by a Q&A with director Montes-Bradley.
August 20, 2026 | Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami. A Tribute to Humberto Calzada.
August 4, 2026 | Villa Rinchiostra, Massa, Tuscany. Screening of The Piccirilli Factor, sponsored by the City of Massa, the Biblioteca Civica Stefano Giampaoli, and Italia Nostra. Free and open to the public. Followed by a Q&A with director Montes-Bradley.
July 21, 2026 | Consulate General of Argentina, Barcelona. Montes-Bradley will deliver a lecture on the 110th anniversary of the first crossing of the Andes by hydrogen balloon (1916), based on the essay Más liviano que el aire by Nelson Montes-Bradley.
May 13, 2026 | Biblioteca Nacional, Auditorio Jorge Luis Borges, Buenos Aires. Screening of Deliciosas perversiones polimorfas.
March 6, 2026 | Kent School, Kent, Connecticut. Screening of The Art of Joy Brown, followed by a Q&A with director Montes-Bradley.
May 10, 2025 | James Monroe's Highland, Charlottesville, Virginia. Public screening of The Piccirilli Factor followed by audience discussion.
November 15, 2024 | Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, Virginia. Screening of Black Fiddlers, followed by a Q&A with director Montes-Bradley.
June 10 & 17, 2024 | Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. NEH-funded workshop "Creative Spaces/Contested Spaces: Reinterpreting Italian American Public Art in New York City." Screening of The Piccirilli Factor.
May 6, 2024 | Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, New York. Screening and Director Talk: The Italian Factor.
March 26, 2024 | Italian Cultural Institute of New York. Presentation and screening preview of The Piccirilli Factor, followed by Q&A.
January 19, 2024 | Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville. Screening of Black Fiddlers
June 27, 2023 | New York Public Library. The Piccirilli Factor. Hosted by The Victorian Society of New York. Jefferson Market Library.
May 24–26, 2016 | The British Academy, London. Screening of Julian Bond followed by panel discussion with Professor Clayborne Carson (Stanford University) and Judy Richardson (SNCC), chaired by Professor Sharon Monteith, University of Nottingham.
