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THE JOURNAL
A DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER'S BLOG
NEW YORK CHARLOTTESVILLE VALENCIA
FEATURE ESSAY
The numbers do not fully absorb. As of this writing, 1,783 cultural heritage sites have been damaged or destroyed in Ukraine since February 24, 2022. Among them, 46 have been completely erased. The Ministry of Culture counts 346 artists and 132 media workers dead. PEN Ukraine had already reached 102 cultural figures killed by the end of 2024, and the count has not stopped. These are not collateral casualties. They are the point.
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Grand Jury Prize for Alice!
No Class A festival comes even close to the feeling of being in community, surrounded by young filmmakers trying to break into a rewards...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Oct 26, 20212 min read
French goes to Florence
Following on Daniel Chester French’s trip to Europe through his correspondence. Some letters are more interesting than others. The...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Oct 12, 20217 min read
New York, 1911
This documentary, part of MoMA's extraordinary collection, was made by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern as part of a series...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Oct 7, 20211 min read
Giddens and Robinson
Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson will be in front of camera for Black Fiddlers. The plans were made almost a year ago. However, COVID, R
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Oct 5, 20212 min read
Filming at Estouteville
This coming Sunday I will be filming at Estouteville house for the upcoming documentary film on Ludwig Kuttner. The location promises to...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Oct 1, 20211 min read
Filming in New York
Research for Daniel Chester French is moving along. In recent days we were able to confirm locations in New York City for the second week...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Oct 1, 20211 min read
Chesterwood: A Heritage Of Beauty
Life and Works of Daniel Chester French A Heritage of Beauty, beginning with the unveiling of iconic The Minute Man in Concord,...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Aug 24, 20212 min read
The Documentary Film Fund
Moving towards a more inclusive and sustainable production model There is no monetary profit in documentary filmmaking that tell stories...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Aug 12, 20212 min read
The Melvin Memorial
An Encounter in Concord, Massachusetts At last, I met Michael Richman! Who’s Michael Richman? Simply put is the most qualified to talk...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Aug 11, 20211 min read
The Spirit of Life
Water and horses are the recurring theme in Saratoga Springs. However, I did not come all this way to see the racing beasts, but to...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Aug 9, 20212 min read
Alice Parker at Mystic and Croatia
Alice: At Home with Alice Parker has been selected participate in two festival at once. At the upcoming 4th Mystic Film Festival in...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Aug 8, 20212 min read
Home Away: The Meadowlark
Chesterwood, MA – One comes to semi-secluded sites such as this to collect thoughts, to walk on the woods, to visit nearby cantinas and...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Aug 4, 20212 min read
A Monumental Effort
What is all this talk about the Lincoln Memorial and Daniel Chester French? While working on the final brushstrokes to Black Fiddlers, we...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Jul 29, 20212 min read
On the Road Again, Heading North
August in Western Massachusetts Those are perhaps my favorite four words together when presented in that order. Destination in mind is...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Jul 29, 20211 min read
Historic Artists' Homes & Studios
The Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios (HAHS) program consists of more than 40 museums that were the homes and studios of American artists.
Heritage Film Project
Jul 24, 20211 min read
La colaboración trasciende el olvido
Acabo de desayunarme, aunque tarde, como de costumbre, que hace unos días murió Horacio Gonzalez a causa del puto virus nuestro de cada...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Jun 30, 20211 min read
The Search for Sy Gilliat
What we know about Gilliat, does not include a portrait or a soundbite. We don’t know what he looked like, or what he sounded like inside...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Jun 30, 20212 min read
The Hands That Rock the Nation
Preliminary notes on a documentary project about Daniel Chester French As I slowly drift into a French state of mind, while still devoted...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Jun 28, 20212 min read
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