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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...
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...
Jun 28, 20212 min read
Fiddling With the Devil
The exemplary life of Louis Alexander Southworth Charlottesville, Va - Louis Southworth was born into slavery in 1830. He was a...
Jun 27, 20215 min read
A Fresh Look Into Black Fiddlers
Black Fiddlers, is a documentary that for the first time will tell the story of early American Black fiddlers.
Jun 25, 20214 min read
Chesterwood, proyecto documental 2022
En agosto me instalo en el estudio del escultor Daniel Chester French en Massachussetts por dos semanas. La idea es pensar en un film...
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Early Juneteenth Photo Evidence
Earliest Juneteenth Photo Evidence. Still photo from Black Fiddlers, a documentary film by Eduardo Montes-Bradley,
Jun 23, 20211 min read
Montes-Bradley comenzó «Black Fiddlers» y proyecta un DOC sobre Daniel Chester French
GPS Audiovisual - Buenos Aires, 15 junio, 2021 - Eduardo Montes-Bradley rueda en la ciudad de Mebane, Carolina del Norte, su documental...
Jun 15, 20212 min read
Daniel Chester French
As an artist in residency in Chesterwood, I will have a unique opportunity to explore a possible documentary film about Daniel Chester...
Jun 15, 20211 min read
Back to North Carolina
Coming Saturday I´ll be heading South again. This time the goal is to meet and record with Iris Thompson Chapman in Mebane, hometown of...
Jun 2, 20212 min read
BLACK FIDDLERS: Please join us!
Please join us in the untold story of American Black fiddlers.
May 24, 20212 min read
Roxbury International Film Festival, 2021
The Other Madison included in the Official Selection for the Roxbury International Film Festival 2021. The 23rd Annual Roxbury...
May 9, 20212 min read
Black Fiddlers: The Story
Black Fiddlers is a documentary film about African-American musicians whose contributions to a national cultural identity have yet to be...
Apr 30, 20213 min read
The Louis Southworth Story
During a recent visit to Marshall Wyatt in North Carolina, I was introduced to “Days and deeds in the Oregon country: Ten-minute stories...
Apr 29, 202119 min read
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George
QUICK NOTES for BLACK FIDDLERS As we gear towards the hectic days of principal photography on the road, I rush to put on paper a few...
Apr 19, 20212 min read
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW RELEASE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT CHORAL COMPOSER ALICE PARKER Hawley, MA April 15, 2021– Melodious Accord, Inc. and Heritage Film...
Apr 18, 20212 min read
On The Road with Black Fiddlers
In about then days from today I will be sitting with John Jeramiah Sullivan in his home in Wilmington, NC. The purpose of the interview...
Apr 14, 20211 min read
Black Fiddlers: When the budget increases and you can still get it done on time.
I’m way behind the curve. Keeping up and grooming a blog takes time and substance. Not that my current life lacks either but managing...
Mar 27, 20212 min read
Sankofa! Bring back those precious eggs
We learn something new every day, and every day we prove ourselves wrong on what was learned as if the learning process would require...
Mar 17, 20211 min read
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