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Evita: A Balanced Portrait of Argentina's Most Polarizing Figure.
Originally blacklisted in Argentina and now the most widely viewed film in the Heritage Film Project catalogue, Evita (2005) achieved its unusual evenness of tone through a single deliberate choice: the script was written in English rather than Spanish — the director's first screenplay in his second language. A close reading of how that linguistic distance produced the most balanced portrait yet of one of the twentieth century's most polarizing political figures.
May 711 min read
Documentary Film Fund Is Proud to Support: The Voice Before the Silence — Norberto Ramírez and the Sonidos de Salta Sound Archive
Norberto Ramírez's Sonidos de Salta is one of Latin America's most significant oral heritage archives — a living sound bank documenting the writers, inhabitants, and landscapes of Argentina's northwest. A resource for academic institutions in ethnomusicology, musicology, and cultural anthropology.
Apr 295 min read
La Voz Antes del Silencio: Documentary Film Fund apoya la imprescindible labor de Norberto Ramírez y el Banco Sonoro de Salta
El Banco Sonoro de Salta, creado por Norberto Ramírez, es uno de los archivos de patrimonio oral más significativos de América Latina — un banco sonoro vivo que documenta escritores, pobladores y paisajes del noroeste argentino. Un recurso para instituciones académicas en etnomusicología, musicología y antropología cultural
Apr 295 min read
The Last Brew: Astor Piazzolla and the Long Road to a Porteño Sound
You probably know Piazzolla from Adiós Nonino, or from the Kronos Quartet recording that made a generation of American listeners suddenly aware that something extraordinary had been happening in Buenos Aires for thirty years without their knowing. What is harder to explain is why it took so long — not for American audiences to discover him, but for Buenos Aires itself to accept what he had made.
Apr 2410 min read
Jota Urondo, un cocinero impertinente. A Film by Mariana Erijimovich and Juan Villegas.
Aged beef. Kimchi. Gnocchi with chitterlings. The menu at Urondo Bar does not court trends, nor does it apologize for its stubbornness. It simply is — rooted, specific, unapologetically itself. And that, it turns out, is a political act.
Apr 122 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.
Mar 254 min read
Jesús Ramón Vera, The Poet Who Sifts Noise
In 2004 I had the privilege of producing a film on Jesús Ramón Vera, a celebrated poet, writer, and devoted comparsero from Salta, Argentina. Vera’s life and work offer a fascinating journey across the cultural frontier of Northwest Argentina, blending high literature with the deep, collective traditions of the Andean highlands.
Oct 26, 20253 min read
The Other Borges: Reflections on Making "Harto The Borges"
When Borges declared 'I'm fed up with him' about his own persona, he didn't imagine it would become my documentary title. 25 years later, 'Harto the Borges' remains relevant—a polyphonic portrait using multiple voices that resist synthesis, mirroring Borges's own literary techniques. My reflections on the methodology and complete transcription now available on Academia.edu to mark the anniversary.
Sep 23, 20255 min read
Ismael Viñas and the Quest for an Argentine National Project
Two decades have passed since the premiere of Testigo del Siglo at the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival, where the memoirs of Ismael Viñas—a man who shaped Argentina’s intellectual and political landscape—first flickered on screen. Viñas, the founder of Contorno magazine, a collaborator of Arturo Frondizi, and the creator of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN), left Argentina in 1976, never to return.
Sep 19, 20255 min read
The Life and Legacy of Eva Perón
his article presents a comprehensive narrative synthesis based on Eduardo Montes-Bradley's documentary film "Evita." Drawing from the film's extensive research, archival footage, historical documentation, and expert analysis, the following account reconstructs the extraordinary trajectory of María Eva Duarte de Perón from her humble origins in rural Argentina to her emergence as one of Latin America's most powerful and controversial political figures.
Jul 24, 20259 min read
Lucy Ann Sutton and the Threads of Serendipity
Lucy Ann Sutton had a long line of descendants, and my children stand at the very end of that line.
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Rosario: Urbanismo y Escultura
En noviembre de 1938, Montes i Bradley titula su articulo de tapa “Urbanismo y Escultura”...
Aug 6, 20243 min read
Manifiesto Herrán by Negro Ramirez
The Documentary Film Fund is pleased to announce its renewed commitment to supporting the production of “Manifiesto Herrán.” This film portr
Jul 4, 20241 min read
Le Mot Just With Héctor Tizón
"Le Mot Just" (2004), The director walks alongside the abandoned railway station in Yala to the ancestral home of Héctor Tizón.
May 4, 20241 min read
HARTO THE BORGES
Harto The Borges departs from the premise of a television program produced to celebrate on the air Jorge Luis Borge's 80th birthday.
Feb 25, 20231 min read
Discos Qualiton: Proyecto de Digitalización
Charlottesville, VA - El proyecto de digitalización Discos Qualiton, tiene por objeto rescatar en formato digital aquellas grabaciones...
Feb 22, 20211 min read
En qué ando | En Castellano
Se me ocurre que ya va siendo tiempo de compartir algunas novedades en castellano. Dicen que la distancia es el olvido, pero no, lo que...
Dec 9, 20201 min read
THE ARCHIVES | Interesante perfil del escritor Osvaldo Soriano
El realizador Eduardo Montes Bradley tuvo que lidiar con la memoria de un autor inmensamente popular, muy querido y respetado en el gremio de prensa y fallecido no hace mucho. Soriano no es, sin embargo, un producto desdeñable: será útil para los jóvenes en general e insoslayable para los miles que estudian periodismo. Y que si desechan ciertas rémoras de la obra, como por ejemplo si Osvaldo Soriano (1943-1997) era resistido por las capillas literarias, podrán apreciar al que
Apr 22, 19991 min read
THE ARCHIVES | Un Film su Osvaldo Soriano di Eduardo Montes-Bradley
IL MANIFESTO, Mercoledì 8 de octubre de 1997 -- Il regista argentino Eduardo Montes Bradley, che proprio qualche giorno fa è stato segnalato da Tuttolibri della Stampa come uno dei pochi cineasti non Usa capaci di rispondere picche alle seduzioni delle major di Hollywood, sta lavorando a un lungometraggio, in bianco e nero, sulla figura di Osvaldo Soriano, giornalista e scrittore innamorato del calcio, scomparso nel gennaio di quest’anno.
Oct 8, 19971 min read
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