The American Renaissance
A Documentary Trilogy
FRENCH PICCIRILLI BRISTOW

Three films. One era. One continuous argument about how America forged a culture of its own — in marble, in stone, in music — against indifference, against erasure, and against the assumption that greatness could only come from elsewhere. The argument is stronger when the films are seen together, and the institutions that present them together will be making an argument of their own about what the American Renaissance means to the present moment.

a trilogy by
Eduardo Montes-Bradley

FRENCH
PICCIRILLI
BRISTOW

Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor, The Piccirilli Factor, and Life and Music in the Age of George Frederick Bristow together run approximately three hours, making the trilogy programmable as a single afternoon, an evening with two intermissions, a three-night series, or an anchor for a longer seminar on American art, music, and cultural identity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The films are available through Heritage Film Project's distribution partners — Kanopy and Alexander Street Press — reaching more than forty thousand public and academic libraries worldwide.

I am inviting American studies departments, art history and music history programs, museum education departments, historical societies, and institutions dedicated to the preservation and celebration of American cultural heritage across the United States and beyond to consider programming the trilogy together.

DOCUMENTARY FILM FUND presents THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE TRILOGY with Harold HOLZER, Leon BOTSTEIN, Joseph HOROWITZ, Thayer TOLLES,

Michele BOGART, Dan PRESTON, Eve KAHN, Richard Guy WILSON,

Michael RICHMAN, Joel ROSENKRANZ, John BELARDO, Michele COHEN,

and Katherine PRESTON. Developed with the support of The Joseph and

Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, The Documentary Film Fund, The Morris

and Alma Schapiro Fund, in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chesterwood, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation,

Woodlawn Cemetery, the Columbus Citizens Foundation, the American

Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and

The New York Public Library. Produced by HERITAGE FILM PROJECT.

Written and directed by EDUARDO MONTES-BRADLEY

For programming inquiries, please contact: Eduardo Montes-Bradley

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