While The Official Story reduces the experience of state terror to a moral fable with clear heroes and villains, I'm Still Here creates space for the ambiguous, bureaucratic horror that characterized the Brazilian military regime, ultimately providing a more profound engagement with historical memory.

This is my tribute to Humberto Calzada: Cuban, American, painter, friend, brother in all the ways that matter. A man who understood that sometimes the only way to go home is to create it, brush stroke by brush stroke, until the canvas holds everything you remember about love.

In our digital age, when so much experience is mediated and virtual, these surviving in-context Tiffany works represent something increasingly rare: authentic encounters with artistic vision as it was originally intended. They exist in the wild not as abandoned artifacts but as continuing participants in American cultural life.

Standing in Jamestown with Raquel, watching artisans in period dress blow glass in a furnace that mirrors those of 1608, I felt a connection across centuries. The glowing silica, the crackle of the fire—it was as if we were glimpsing the past while holding Tiffany’s legacy in our hearts. This is the power of glass: it captures light, time, and stories, reflecting them back to us in hues of green, blue, or iridescent gold.

We're thrilled to announce our upcoming documentary project that promises to be one of our most ambitious and compelling films yet. Following the success of our previous collaboration on "Rita Dove: An American Poet," we're reuniting with the legendary poet laureate Rita Dove to bring her critically acclaimed work "Sonata Mulattica" to cinematic life.

I’m pleased to announce that I will be in Cannes from October 11 through 17 to represent the Heritage Film Project and share our most recent collection of films—created with your support and the generosity of cultural philanthropists dedicated to bringing the richness of American voices to the international stage.

If this film moves you, if you believe in the power of documentary storytelling to change hearts and minds, we invite you to support our next projects through a tax-deductible contribution to the Documentary Film Fund.

The lives of these four artists span different generations and movements, yet three share roots in Spain's Mediterranean arc—Valencia and Catalonia—while Vicente hails from Castile's high plains. Despite their distinct origins, these regions have long been Spain's most outward-looking, connected by trade, art, and a comfort with cultural exchange. Each man carried that sensibility to New York: an appreciation for light and color, a balance between classical training and natur

The Untold Story of Louis Comfort Tiffany's Global Artistic Empire and How America's Master of Light Became the World's First Global Design Ambassador

At the heart of that story stands Lucy Ann Sutton, cousin to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Her recollections, published in the New York Observer on August 4, 1887, constitute one of the few intimate, emotionally textured accounts of Hawthorne’s formative years.

The Piccirilli Factor will be part of the Fall 2025 Film & Video Series at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY. The screening is scheduled for Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at 6 PM, in Manhattan.

“The Art of Joy Brown” Selected for Competition at 2025 Mystic Film Festival.

When we think of Louis Comfort Tiffany, our minds inevitably turn to those iconic stained glass lamps with their iridescent dragonfly wings and poppy blossoms, or perhaps the jewel-toned windows that grace countless churches and private residences. Yet this singular focus on his most commercially successful works has obscured a far more complex and ambitious artistic legacy—one that reveals Tiffany as a pioneering collaborator in America’s emerging vocabulary of interior arch

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.

Throughout the film, Montes-Bradley weaves personal archival materials, interviews, and on-location filming with understated sensitivity. We see Lankes’s legacy not only through his prints but also through the memories of scholars, collectors, and descendants who help reconstruct the arc of his life—from Buffalo to Europe, from Vermont to Virginia.

here are moments during filming that never make it to the screen—far more of them than one might imagine. I’m not referring to bloopers, those lighthearted clips some reserve for the credits when all is said and done. I mean the other kind—the ones that stay with you, etched in memory.

The opportunity to reshape global perceptions of American culture is within our grasp. We invite you to join us in this crucial mission by supporting the Documentary Film Fund.

I miss John Herr. He would occasionally ride his bicycle and visit with a bag full of tomatoes, onions, and cucumbers from his garden on the other side of Lewis Mountain. John was a friend of mine—a poet and a scientist.