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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.
Apr 156 min read
Northeast Brazil. In times that feel increasingly dense, these images carry something lighter—something closer to the human pulse.
Twelve photographs from the northeastern sertão of Brazil — Paraíba and Pernambuco, 2018. Taken by documentary filmmaker Eduardo Montes-Bradley during a journey in search of the region's living musical traditions: forró, birimbau, cavaquinho, samba de roda. A meditation on the gaze, the road, and the faces that stay with you long after the names are gone.
Apr 132 min read
Carnival and the Making of Modern Brazil
Two decades after its premiere, I am pleased to share the film again — now accessible for new audiences to discover or revisit. If the documentary continues to resonate, it is because samba itself continues to evolve. Culture does not stand still, and neither does rhythm.
Feb 103 min read
Samba On Your Feet a documentary film by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
"Samba on your feet," a documentary by Eduardo Montes-Bradley, explores the shared roots of Carnival and Samba in Brazil.
Feb 25, 20231 min read
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