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Documentales en marcha 2021
Se viene un año curioso, digo “se viene” como si tuviera autonomía, el año, no nosotros. En realidad, somos nosotros los que avanzamos...
Jan 3, 20212 min read
Mujeres del pasado: esclavitud a perpetuidad
Con frecuencia coincidimos en cierta y muy caprichosa manera de dividir los tiempos en que presuntamente se dividen las experiencias...
Dec 16, 20202 min read
Estrenamdo drone en Falling Springs, Va
La introducción, y posterior evolución del drone como herramienta de uso frecuente en el cine documental, nos ha permitido mejorar...
Dec 15, 20202 min read
Human contraband, Freedom Fighters
In the process of researching images for The Other Madisons, I came across this extraordinary vision of a "contraband soldier". I...
Dec 11, 20201 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
Three Documentaries in 2020
Looking Forward and in Good Spirits - As we move closer to the completion of The Other Madisons , yet another great American story, we celebrate what otherwise could have been a difficult year for the Heritage Film Project. However, we have reasons to be thankful in spite of it all, COVID, political turmoil, civil unrest, climate change, millions of fellow citizens around the world without work, or even a roof over their heads. At HFP we have been lucky, and in many ways priv
Dec 5, 20202 min read
The Black Descendants of James Madison
CHARLOTTESVILLE - The Other Madisons, by Eduardo Montes-Bradley, makes a strong, perhaps essential, complement to Bettye Kearse's book...
Nov 28, 20202 min read
Ansel Adams - Tabernero, una coincidencia notable
“En 1962, durante mi último año en la Escuela de Cine de La Plata sostuve una correspondencia con el fotógrafo Ansel Adams, la que se...
Nov 24, 20203 min read
The Other Madisons | Credit Sequence
Independent filmmakers spend more time crafting the opening credit sequences than most people would usually guess. At least, I do. The...
Nov 21, 20201 min read
La celebración: Un encuentro que zooma
“Puede ser que pueda ser, puede ser que no pueda ser. Pero es mejor si puede que sea”. Así decía mi abuelo con su acento de Europa...
Nov 21, 20201 min read
Felix Monti: A Tabernero le debo todo.
Reproduzco a continuación el mensaje que recibimos de Felix Monti cuando nos disponíamos a comenzar el rodaje de Buscando a Tabernero,...
Nov 20, 20202 min read
Always Remember, You are a Madison
Charlottesville – Nov. 13. Another day went by sorting music and images to conform a sequence based on Bettye Kearse’s “The Other...
Nov 13, 20201 min read
The Other Madisons | Institutional Rape in Revolutionary Times
As we move along, down the path of descendants from James Madison and the African enslaved woman named Mandy, we come to Jim, Mandy’s...
Nov 11, 20201 min read
"The Birth of a Nation” Preamble of a dystopia fortold
With "The Birth of a Nation", originally called "The Clansman" (1915) by D. W. Griffith, the American audience was introduced to the...
Nov 9, 20201 min read
NPR | Cville's One-Man Moviemaking Machine
By SANDY HAUSMAN The Virginia Film Festival is presenting fifty movies this year – among them, more than a dozen documentaries. Most...
Oct 26, 20201 min read
Wisdom & Love: Montes-Bradley composes a tribute to Alice Parker
C-Ville Weekly | (Original Article) by Julia Stumbaugh - When Melodious Accord, Inc., reached out to Charlottesville-based documentarian...
Oct 26, 20202 min read
The Other Madisons, a Cross Country Journey
Back from the first leg of a cross-country journey in search of The Other Madisons. The Other Madisons is the title of the book by Bettye...
Oct 14, 20202 min read
The Other Madisons | Notes for a documentary film
Mandy’s Funeral at James Madison’s Montpelier enslaved graveyard. Reconstruction notes.
Sep 25, 20201 min read
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