Eduardo Montes-Bradley

Eduardo Montes-Bradley (born 1960) is an Argentinian-American documentarian. In December 2019, the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires presented "From Here and There: A Montes-Bradley Retrospective," including nineteen documentaries produced in Argentina, United States, Brazil, and Germany between 1999 and 2019. Montes-Bradley's written essays have been translated and published by Random House, Sperling & Kupfer, Editorial Norma, and Editorial Sudamericana.
Early life.
 Montes-Bradley came of age in Buenos Aires. In March 1973, he was admitted to Colegio Nicolás Avellaneda. On May 25, 1973, President Lanusse is succeeded by president Cámpora ending seven years of military rule. In June Montes-Bradley joined the Unión de Estudiantes Secundarios (UES). The deaths of Pablo Picasso, Pablo Casals, Pablo Neruda and Víctor Jara, all of which occurred that year, had a profound impact on his generation. Montes-Bradley recalls 1973 as a milestone year: "... because of the unique experience of living in a home engulfed by music and poetry in a country at the brink Civil War." On March 24, 1976, general Videla led a military Coup d'état followed by a decade of state-sponsored terror resulting in the death and despairing of thousands. In 1979 Montes-Bradley moved to New York.
Career.
In 1980 Montes-Bradley was appointed US correspondent for "El Heraldo del Cine", a Buenos Aires-based trade publication catering Latin America's film industry. He also contributed as a freelance reporter to "The Hollywood Reporter". As the US correspondent for "El Heraldo del Cine", he conducted a series of interviews with Jack Valenti, Menahem Golan, Renzo Rossellini, and Lalo Schifrin among others. His first contribution to filmmaking can be traced to Margareta Vinterheden's "Man maste ju leva", Sweden, 1978. In the early 1980s Montes-Bradley worked as assistant editor in documentary films about the civil war in Nicaragua, and El Salvador. The latter produced by the insurgent media collective of Radio Venceremos. In 1984 Montes-Bradley establishes The Entertainment Herald, a bilingual film magazine distributed by subscription and at film festivals in Europe and Latin America. In 1986, he was appointed as Director of International Sales at Filmtrust Motion Picture Licensing, an independent production and distribution company based in Los Angeles. Three years later, Montes-Bradley joins producer Javier Gracia to write, produce, and direct "Double Obsession", a straight-to-video thriller released by Columbia Tri-Star starring Maryam D'Abo, Margaux Hemingway, Scott Valentine and Frederick Forrest. In 1995 he married actress Sandra Ballesteros, leading-lady in "El seKuestro" (The Kidnapping), a politically-incorrect satiric-parody about a guerrilla group in the imaginary Latin American nation of Rio Hondo. "El seKuestro" received negative reviews, and ultimately became a cult movie, as well as Montes-Bradley's last known fiction. In 1997 Montes-Bradley returned to the documentary format with "Soriano" a biographical-sketch about Osvaldo Soriano. "Soriano" would be the first of as many as forty documentary portrayals of intellectuals, artists, and writers to follow. The first were produced under the extinct label Contrakultura Films. The initial collection included profiles on Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and Osvaldo Bayer. ]]. His films have also explored the Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian cultures in films such as Samba On Your Feet. In 2008 Montes-Bradley co-founded Heritage Film Project a publishing effort with an academic approach producing films on Holocaust survivors (Children of the Forest), social activists (Julian Bond), history (Monroe Hill), ¡ science (The Signature of the Sperm), and the arts. His films are available in academic as well as public libraries, and have been shown on American and European television. Montes-Bradley is credited by his own name and under pseudonyms including Diana Hunter, Ana Lobos, Cándida Beltran, Emma Padilla, Lupe Vélez y Rita Clavel, pen-names some inspired by leading ladies in Mexican films of the silent period.
His most recent work includes , , , , and Samba on Your Feet. Montes-Bradley has engaged in volunteer work as member of the board with the African American Heritage Center, member of the UCLA UNESCO Chair on Global Citizenship Education Advisory Committee, and was most recently awarded as UCLA Regents Lecturer.
Films.
 
"Alice: At Home With Alice Parker" (2020) The documentary film explores the life and works of composer-conductor Alice Parker. It is an intimate portrait entirely shore over the winter of 2020 at the musician's residence in Hawley and in New York City. Produced by HFP in association with Melodious Accord, Inc., the film focuses particularly on the formative years and in the collaborations of Parker with the written works of Martin Luther King Jr., Archibald MacLeish, Eudora Welty and Emily Dickinson. "Alice" was introduced to the American audiences by Chorus America on October 8, 2020., it was selected to be in the Official Selection of the Virginia Film Festival, and is distributed by Kanopy and other streaming platforms.
"Buscando a Tabernero" (Searching 4-Tabernero) USA-Argentina 2020. The documentary, first released in South America as "Buscando a Tabernero", narrates the multiple exiles of Peter Paul Weinschenk, better known as Pablo Tabernero for his work as cinematographer in the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. For his contribution to Argentinian cinema during the Peronist period of Film Noire, Tabernero enjoys international recognition. Some of his best-known work was created next directors Carlos Hugo Christensen, Mario Soffici, Hugo del Carril, and Luis Saslavsky. His direction of photography in Prisioneros de la tierra was critically acclaimed and prized by Jorge Luis Borges. The film was exhibited at the MOMA in 2015 as part of a curated retrospective of Argentine film noir. The exhibit included three of Tabernero's masterpieces: Si muero antes de despertar, La Quintrala and Prisioneros de la tierra. Tabernero was awarded the Premio Condor de Plata and is increasingly being recognized for his contribution to the documentary experience in Barcelona in times of the Spanish Civil War alongside the militias of Buenaventura Durruti. There were two versions made of this film, a director's cut produced by Heritage Film Project, and a co-production adapted for the screens in Argentina which resulted from a co-production between Heritage Film Project and Soy Cine. In Argentina, the film is being released as "Buscando a Tabernero".
"A Soldier's Dream" (2019), is a biographical portrayal of private Milt Feldman, a US Veteran with the 106th Infantry Division who was captured at the Battle of the Bulge in The Ardennes. After being captured by the German Army, Feldman was marched and transported to Stalag IV-B as POW where he managed to survive until the arrival of the Red Army. The second act of the film is a flashback of Mr. Feldman's childhood in Brooklyn in the 1930s. "A Soldier's Dream" premiered in Pleasanton on August 11, 2018, "A Soldier's Dream" won Best Documentary at the 9th Historical and Military Film Festival, Warsaw, Best Biography at Oniros Film Awards, New York 2019, and Best Feature Documentary at Port Orchard Film Festival (2019). The film also made the Official Selection at Western European Film Festival, 2019; Courage Film Festival, Berlin, 2019; San Francisco Veteran's Film Festival 2018, Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2018, and the Great Western Catskills International Film Festival, 2018. "A Soldier's Dream" aired on PBS. HD | 60 minutes
"The Gillenwater Stor"' (2018) Biographical film on Jay Y. Gillenwater, UVA academic physician—and a woodland gardener with an old-school belief in family, friendship, and self-sufficiency. This portrait of a plain-spoken scientist who married his childhood sweetheart, brings out the wisdom of an unassuming Southerner and the moral compass of an exemplary man. HD | 30 minutes.
Monroe Hill.
The documentary Monroe Hill (Cradle of the University of Virginia) explores the roots and historical context of James Monroe's first farm-plantation in Albemarle County. The property, known as Monroe Hill, predates Highland, and presently serves as the administrative offices of Brown Residential College. Monroe Hill is located on grounds of the University of Virginia. The documentary focuses on the ten years that followed Monroe's acquisition of the farm and the process of the French Directory, and the director utilized selected footage from rare historical films by D. W. Griffith to contextualize the late 18th Century period. Color and Black and White | HFP | HD | 60 min. | 16:9
Unearthed and Understood.
Unearthed and Understood is an academic-documentary awarded by the President's Commission on Slavery and the University (PCSU) at the University of Virginia. It was presented at "Universities Confronting the Legacy of Slavery" on October 16, 2014, in Charlottesville. Heritage Film Project | University of Virginia Collection, 2014. HD | 18 minutes.
Rita Dove: An American Poet.
 is a biographical sketch about poet laureate Rita Dove. The eleven-part, hour-long documentary began as a series of conversations between the writer and the filmmaker which took place in Charlottesville between September 2012 and October 2013. The conversations were later edited and combined with hundreds of still images and several hours of home movies from the Dove family's collection. The intimacy of the film's dialogue brings a uniquely personal insight into the wide range of Dove's artistic passions. Most of the film's images are the results of the efforts of Rita Dove's father (Ray A. Dove) to record their family's life in the 1950s and 1960s. premiered in Charlottesville on January 31, 2014 Heritage Film Project | University of Virginia Collection, 2014. Distributed by Filmmakers Library & Alexander Street Press, USA. Color and Black and White, HD, 50 min. HFP | HD | 50 min. | 16:9
Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement.
 is the portrait of social activist and former Georgia legislator Julian Bond was awarded Best Documentary Award at the 4th Annual Baltimore International Black Film Festival, 2017. Heritage Film Project | University of Virginia Collection, 2012. Distributed by Filmmakers Library & Alexander Street Press, USA. Color and Black and White, HD, 34 min.
Visual arts collection.
The collection explores the relationship between artists and their work. The series originated with a portrayal of Perez Celis in 2005. The following titles are among the most recent.
J.J.Lankes.
"J.J.Lankes: Yankee Printmaker in Virginia" explores the life and work of Julius John Lankes, woodcutting artist who illustrated the works of Robert Frost, Sherwood Anderson, and Roark Bradford among other celebrated authors of his time. USA, 2019, HD, 30 min. The documentary is partially based on the previous research by Lankes' biographer, Welford Dunaway Taylor; written by Montes-Bradley in collaboration with Jeffrey Plank, and produced by Soledad Liendo for HFP. Dr. Taylor, professor emeritus of English Literature at the University of Richmond, was interviewed by Montes-Bradley at his home in Virginia where he shows examples from his formidable collection of Lankes' prints, as well as material relating to Robert Frost, Sherwood Anderson, and Rockwell Kent. For the film were also interviewed Burchfield Scholar Nancy Weekly and Parker C. Agelasto who authored a book about Lankes' miniature prints. "J.J.Lankes: Yankee Printmaker in Virginia" premiered in Buenos Aires as part of a Montes-Bradley's retrospective, and was most recently included in the Official Selection at Buffalo International Film Festival as part of a special exhibit organized by the Burchfield Penney Art Center and the State University of New York, and in the Special Selection at the Virginia Film Festival, Official Selection, 2019.
White: A Season in the Life of John Borden Evans.
Poetic-portrayal of Virginian artists during a snowy winter in his North Garden 19th-century farm. "White" was awarded Best Documentary at the 4th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra, Best Documentary at Richmond International Film Festival, and in the Official Selection at the Virginia Film Festival. USA, 2015, HD, 30 min.
Andrés Waissman.
Documentary portrayal on contemporary artist Andrés Waissman. Filmed at the artist's atelier, and in and around his familiar places in Palermo. In a candid conversational style, Waissman speaks about his childhood and early artistic influences, his Jewish ancestry, and social commitment. Premiered at MALBA, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires on July 10, 2010. USA, 2012, HD|30 min.
Calzada.
Documentary portrayal on Cuban-American artist Humberto Calzada exploring his early life in Havana, Cuba before the Revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power. Humberto Calzada represents the side of the Cuban-American equation to the north of the Gulf Stream. His meticulous attempt to reconstruct the past is evident on-canvas. In many ways, Calzada epitomizes the exiled who acknowledges the impossibility of return: "The Havana I used to know is just another imaginary place", he says on this intimate portrait of a man gravitating in a constant state of melancholy. Original Music by Gerardo Aguillón (violin) and José Angel Navarro (guitar). 30 min. 16:9 HD Heritage Film Project, 2010. HD, 30 min. Distributed by Alexander Street Press and Kanopy.
Ernesto Deira.
Documentary portrayal on Ernesto Deira member alongside Luis Felipe Noe, Romulo Maccio and Jorge de la Vega of the neofigurative movement in Paris. Produced for the Museo de Nacional de Bellas Artes. HD|20'
Pérez Celis.
Biographical portrayal on contemporary artist Pérez Celis. Filmed in Little Haiti during frequent visits by the filmmaker to the artist's studio. In a candid conversational style, Celis talks of his early influences, Picasso, Matisse, of his relationship Argentine politics, particularly with Evita, and of his understanding of the meaning of life. USA, 2005.
Latin American Writers Collection.
Ongoing biographical profiles on Latin American writers. At least sixteen films on Latin American Writers were produced under the auspice of Contrakultura Films, an imprint of Iruña Films and are listed on a separate entry. The Contrakultura catalog included biographical documentaries on Andrés Rivera, Héctor Tizón and Juan Filloy amongst others, was introduced by Eduardo Montes-Bradley at the Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting "Luso-Hispanic Presence in the Changing Cultural Landscape of America", organized by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. Other titles in the Latin American Writers Collection are:
"Cortázar: apuntes para un documental" (Cortázar: Notes for a Documentary), approaches Julio Cortázar's political views, and perspectives on the Latin American Left. The film also presents an original perspective on the relationship between the author and Carole Dunlop in Paris. Moments of this relationship are vividly recalled through the use of homemade movies made by the celebrated couple. The film also introduces previously unseen footage filmed by Cortázar and Aurora Bernardez in the gardens of the Mexican Embassy in New Delhi during the period in which the ambassador was Octavio Paz. The 8mm footage shows Cortázar and Bernardez, as well as Octavio Paz and his wife Elena Garro dancing with a large group of natives, presumably embassy personnel. The film includes interviews with Claribel Alegría, Ernesto Cardenal, Manuel Antín, Carlos Montemayor, and Sergio Ramírez among other writers and intellectuals. Filming Locations: Managua, Buenos Aires, Paris, Linz Am Rhien, Madrid, and Rome. The film was nominated by the Argentine Film Critics Association for Best Documentary in 2003. Premio Cóndor de Plata.
 
"Los cuentos del timonel" (Tells of the Helmsman) Biographical sketch on Osvaldo Bayer, a controversial political figure, a journalist and historian born in the German Colonies of Santa Fe province in 1927. However, Mr Bayer grew up in Buenos Aires, amidst the German community of barrio Belgrano where Bayer continued to live in the Summers of Argentina thus alternating with Linz Am Rhien from Summer to Summer. From this period in Belgrano Bayer evokes Adolf Hitler's birthday being celebrated by thousands at the German Club - Club Albatros "They came in into the streets of Belgrano in a caravan, often lead by the German Ambassador to Argentina Baron Edmund von Thurman. According to Bayer, when the ambassador arrived at the German Club the band will start playing Hitler's favorite tune the Badonviller Marsch. However, the director preferred to capture "the other Osvaldo Bayer" the one living significantly more comfortably in Linz am Rhein. After its release in Buenos Aires, "Los cuentos del timonel" was awarded Best Documentary by the Argentine Film Critics Association 2002. The film finds Bayer a witness of privilege to the second half of the 20th century in Latin America and Europe, which seems to be a constant theme in Montes-Bradley's documentary work. Bayer's recollections on camera include a highly politicized period during the Peronist regime, in which he worked as helmsman on a river Navy boat patrolling the Paraná river between Buenos Aires and Asuncion. The title of the film derives from that vignette. With a peculiar sense of humor, Mr. Bayer explains how the strikes against Perón begun and how his political involvement ultimately lead to his determination to leave the country and move to Berlin where he arrived shortly after the end of World War II. This chapter focusing on his experience during this period is quite eloquent and revealing. According to Osvaldo Bayer's his apartment had a clear view of the Berlin Tempelhof Airport from where the Berlin Airlift was carried on. At a different point in the film, Bayer also recalls the night the Berlin Wall was built and further describes the hazards of everyday life with skyrocketing inflation. During the making of this documentary film between Linz Am Rhien and Berlin, Bayer also explores his relationship with Paco Urondo, Julio Cortázar, Hector Olivera, Osvaldo Soriano, Rodolfo Walsh and others. "Los cuentos del timonel" was filmed using a Bolex 16mm and a Sony Handycam DCR-VX1000.
Other titles in the series are "Harto The Borges" presented at the 12e Rencontres Cinémas d'Amerique Latine, Toulouse, Mars 2000. Nominated for a Cóndor de Plata, and "Soriano (The documentary)"
"Writers Made in Brazil" in an ongoing series of profiles on Brazilian writers produced -in part- with a grant from the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations | Embassy of Brazil, Washington, D.C.. The following titles are the most recent and relevant.
"Saavedra: Between Berlin and a place called Peixoto" is a biographical documentary on Brazilian author Carola Saavedra. Filmed on location in Berlin and Rio de Janeiro. Saavedra premiered October 9, 2013, at Frankfurt International Book Fair. Official Selection Pedra Azul Film Festival. Filmmaker produces documentaries on Ronaldo Correia de Brito and José Luiz Passos. Heritage Film Project + Writers Made in Brazil, 2013. HD, 30 min. Produced in part with a grant from the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations | Embassy of Brazil, Washington, D.C.
"Lisboa" is a biographical portrayal Brazilian writer Adriana Lisboa Fábregas Gurevitz, and her experience as a Brazilian living in Louisville, close to Boulder where the documentary was filmed in February 2012. The film presents the writer and her perspectives on exile and literature, on living abroad and in a bilingual universe. "Lisboa" premiered on WHTJ PBS / WCVE PBS, Virginia, also aired by Rocky Mountain PBS. Italian Avant Premier with Italian subtitles at Festivaletteratura | Mantua, Italy on September 5, 2014 Heritage Film Project + Writers Made in Brazil, 2012. HD, 30 min. (English) Produced in part with a grant from the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations | Embassy of Brazil, Washington, D.C..
The Latin American collection.
Independently produced and distributed films dealing with Latin American cultural and political issues, and remarkable individuals.
"Evita (Documentary)". 2007. Documentary on Eva Duarte, former First Lady of Argentina. Evita, the illegitimate child without social or economic standing, was determined to make it big in the world of entertainment. Her love affair with a rising political star (Juan Domingo Perón) transformed her into a vital part of Perón's plans to seduce a nation. The charming Evita became a skilled public speaker that fitted perfectly with politics in Argentina. Just imagine Marilyn Monroe with the charisma of Princess Diana, elevated by Joseph Goebbels's propaganda machine as the indisputable Spiritual Leader of the Nation. The documentary appears to be fair, perhaps the first biography on the subject that strives to be balanced. "Evita" was screened at the Virginia Film Festival, in Charlottesville, on November 4, 2011.
"". DVD Release Date: July 13, 2006 by Westlake Entertainment, German Release, 20007, Latin American premiered on NatGeo. "CHE: Rise and Fall", follows on the trials and tribulations of Ernesto Guevara in the words of old friends and comrades-in-arms. Includes the testimonies of Guevara's friend Alberto Granado, and members of his elite military entourage Alberto Castellanos, Enrique Oltuski, Argudín Mendoza, Enrique "Pombo" Villegas. Locations: Havana, Congo, Bolivia. Super 16mm. Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
"Samba On Your Feet" USA | Brazil 2005. The documentary explores behind the scenes of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, revealing the preambles of the cultural clash leading to Samba, an indigenous cultural tradition in Brazil. "Samba On Your Feet" includes archival material and interviews with iconic figures of Brazilian Carnival and Samba. ""Samba On Your Feet" " was selected to participate at the Toulouse Latin American Film Festival 2008, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival 2006, Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) 2007, and Toronto Latino Film Festival. The film is distributed by Filmmakers Library. Worldwide rights by Alexander Street Press. The documentary gained the recognition of African American Studies.
"Ismael Viñas: Witness of a Century". Original title: "Ismael Viñas: Testigo del siglo". Film based on the memoirs and recollections of Ismael Viñas: legendary political figure, economist, founder of Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MALENA), former Undersecretary of Culture during the Revolución Libertadora. Viñas reappears in front of the camera after twenty-six years in self-imposed exile, first in Israel and finally in the US. During a series of conversations with Montes-Bradley in Florida, USA, Viñas reflects on his youth, on his brother David, on his father, a well political character during the times of Hipólito Yrigoyen, and a Federal Judge in Patagonia during the uprisings portrayed in Rebellion in Patagonia in the early 1920s. Viñas also recalls his imprisonment during the Peronist period and with particular emphasis his relationship with Ernesto Che Guevara, and Salvador Allende amongst many other relevant figures of the period. On release, the film caused somewhat of a commotion. It was acclaimed and criticize by extremist elements on the right and particularly on the left where the Ismael Viñas portrayed on the documentary was perceived as a traitor to the Marxist principles he once so strongly embraced. Directed by Montes-Bradley as Diana Hunter. Premiered at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI).
"The Great Pretender". Official Selection of the International Film Festival of Buenos Aires (BAFICI), 2007. Released in Uruguay as "No a los papelones". Release in Argentina as "El gran simulador". The documentary presents Montes-Bradley's quest to find Nahuel Maciel, a journalist who fifteen years before fooled the press core by posing as a native from the Mapuche nation in Patagonia. Disguised as Chief Nahuel the impostor sold alleged interviews with Gabriel García Márquez, Umberto Eco, Mario Vargas Llosa and others to prestigious local newspapers such as El Cronista Comercial. Nahuel Maciel later published a book with a bogus interview with the Colombian Nobel Prize preceded by a foreword by Eduardo Galeano. Montes-Bradley finally finds Maciel some 300 miles from Buenos Aires in a frontier town called Gualeguaychú where Maciel was working close to the leadership of a group of environmentalists battling a paper-mill in the Argentina–Uruguay border. The film is witty, provocative, and politically incorrect. "El gran simulador" was initially banned from theatres in Argentina for its politics, and it was effectively released in Uruguay (across the border) with good B.O. results. However, the film was shown as part of the Official Selection of the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI), 2007. On the director's request the film did not participate "in competition" to avoid further turmoil. Two years later, in April 2008, "El gran simulador" was finally released in Argentina by Editorial Perfil, the opposition media conglomerate own by Jorge Fontevecchia. HD | 75 min. 35 mm.
"Crónicas Mexicas". The documentary follows in the footsteps of Hernán Cortés from the landing beaches of Veracruz on the golf coast of Mexico, to Tenochtitlan, the ancient capital of the Aztec. Montes-Bradley (as Rita Clavel) teams-up with Martín Caparrós who becomes the omnipresent and omniscient protagonist of this journey through geography and time. Caparrós acute sense of irony becomes a permanent fixture throughout the film, provoking the audience into uncharted: the politically incorrect history of Latin America.
Fiction.
 (The KidNapping) Satire-Farce. El Sekuestro depicts an absurd revolutionary movement in Rio Hondo, a fictitious republic "lost somewhere in America," "outsider" Bruno (Tobias Meincke, from Germany) runs a classified ad for accomplices in a kidnapping. Joining the cause are a prostitute, Carmen (Sandra Ballesteros, from Argentina), an unemployed steel worker, Mario (Adam Black, of Spain), and a pretty boy, Luis (Luis Fernández, of Venezuela) all of whom want to change their own lives, but without the least interest in creating a socialist Utopia. They kidnap businessman Renato Cefalú (Lázaro Pérez, of Cuba) who doesn't have anywhere near the ransom the outlaws are demanding, and whose wife (Alex Pertile, of Italy) goes about seducing the chief of police in order to prevent him from tracking down her husband. An example of the movie's brand of cynical humor is the character, Mario. dreaming of what he'll do with the ransom money, he says, "First, a small repair shop. One or two apprentices, tools, and a hole in the ground ... Then I get my hands on someone as poor as I used to be, I teach him the craft and, Long Live the F ... Revolution! I'll never have to work again as long as the sucker does the job for me." The critics hammered the film following its premiere at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, most of the blame focus on the sound quality. The director will argue that the soundtrack of the copy shipped to the film festival was sabotaged during the development process by groups that perceived the film as a mockery of Montoneros and possibly other revolutionary or terrorists organizations. However, "El SeKuestro" remains a director's favorite and is frequently aired on television (Canal Volver - ArteAr). "El Sekuestro" intentionally written with "K" instead of "C", has been recently interpreted as an attempt to ridicule Kirchner. "El SeKuestro" was filmed in South Beach in October–November 1995. On November 4 of the same year Montes-Bradley and leading actress Sandra Ballesteros, were married. The film is a political farce taking on the events that marked Argentine life during the 1970s. It has been said that the plot is an excuse to mock the struggle of the guerrilla organizations that confronted the military regime led by Jorge Rafael Videla.
 Thriller. Starring Margaux Hemingway, Beth Fisher, Scott Valentine, Jamie Horton, Maryam D'Abo and Frederic Forrest. Edited by John Venzon. TriStar Columbia and Reivaj Films, 1992. The film did well with foreign distribution, particularly in the straight to video and cable markets. Double Obsession was shot on 35mm at the University of Colorado in Boulder, a final transfer to video was later produced. Montes-Bradley hardly ever talks about this film written by himself in collaboration with Jeffrey Delman and Rick Marx. The film was initially referred to as "Mirror Image".
 Thriller, Film Noire. USA, 1992. Produced by Smoothtalker Productions. Story: "The woman who 976 numbers offer the men who call a world of erotic fantasy. But they never know who lurks on the other side of the line". Starring Blair (Lisa) Weikgenant as Lisa Charles, Peter Crombie as Jack Perdue, Stuart Whitman as Lt. Gallagher, Sidney Lassick, Joe Guzaldo, Paul Raci as Peri and Burt Ward. Edited by Sandra Adair. Executive Producer Javier Gracia. Original score by Tony Roman; Production Design by Brian Densmore. US Release: June 18, 1992
Music videos.
Montes-Bradley directed music-videos at odds with the dominant trends at a time in which "MTV" was still in the experimental stage. "Rumbera" ("trad." a woman who dances the rumba), is a song by Willy Chirino, (Sony Music, 1994. "Rumbera", the videoclip based on Willy Chirino's song is a film-extravaganza shot in the style of the neorealism with magic realism undertones. The seven-minute short was filmed in a single take, in the interior of a cabaret in South Beach. The Cameraman and Director of Photography was Scott Mumford. "Rumbera" opened the doors for other salsa music videos to be regularly programmed in "MTV Latino", until then, exclusively reserved for Rock, Pop, and ballads from South American and Spaniard bands and soloists. "Rumbera", was filmed in Super 16mm and premiered in Havana, Cuba during the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, 1994. At the time, Willy Chirino just as Olga Guillot, and several other Cuban artists were blacklisted in their homeland."Dale Pascual" (Warner Music Group) by the Argentine pop-group "Los enanitos verdes" was shot in 35mm in La Cava, 27 miles North of CABA. The song speaks of the hardships of the impoverished immigrants living in Argentina. La Cava provided the ideal setting, typical of neo-realism, a recurrent theme on Montes-Bradley's music videos, which emphasized the hard living conditions of the children in poverty. In the film, the director staged the crucifixion of a nude boy representing poverty. The image, of a large wooden cross laying against the walls of a public school, with the Argentine flag on a high mast in the background was censored in several countries. "Dale Pascual" was the last music video produced and directed by Montes-Bradley.
Uncategorized.
"Child of the Forest: The Story of Yona Bromberg". HFP, 2014. The film documents the memories of Holocaust survivor Yona Bromberg who recalls being herded -along with the rest of the Jews in Rokitno- to the market where the occupying German forces open machine-gun fire killing almost everyone. Yona Bromberg, her mother, and sister run for cover into the forest where they survived among other refugees until the arrival of the Soviet Army. "Child of the Forest:" was filmed in Hallandale.
"La Ventana de Leon Rozitchner". Independent, 2011. Anecdotical documentary with philosopher León Rozitchner. Shot in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
"American Manifesto" Avantgarde short film premiered at BAFICI, 2005. Filmed in Denver,during the winter of 1993.
"'Tríptico Vertical", USA 1986. Not much is known about the nearly fifteen minutes art-documentary made with the Madres de Plaza de Mayo. It was shot in Buenos Aires shortly after the return to democratic rule in 1983. Music by Julio Lacarra.
Bibliography.
Ideography, Biographical approach to Peter Paul Weinschenk, life and works of Pablo Tabernero, cinematographer of Prisioneros de la tierra directed by Mario Soffici.
"Los dedos del huracán". Short story. Children Literature. Included on "De Ola en Ola 3" School Textbook for Third Grade. Group Macmillan. Editorial Estrada S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina. Illustrated by Eugenia Nobati. p. 62-67
 Bio-bibliographical essay on .
 Biographical approach to Julio Cortázar, a fundamental name of the Latin American Boom, Montes-Bradley exposes the strategies used to build Cortázar: the myth, simultaneously providing the arguments to challenge such myths while questioning Cortázar's political affiliations.
A quick reference search on Google Scholar will show that "Cortázar sin Barba" has been widely cited by critics and scholars alike. The first edition of "Cortázar sin barba" was published by Editorial Sudamericana, Argentina, 2004. A Third Edition (revised) was presented in Barcelona by Pesódromo 21 on September 30, 2014.
 Bilingual Anthology of Short Stories. Selection of awarded works at the Literary Award "Agua no terceiro Milenio", Brazil. Published in Portuguese and Spanish. Pilar Editors, Brasília, 2000. P. 142, 143, 144. Includes the short story "Das schwerste gewicht" previously published in "Ya se que todo es mentira" (1999), Editorial del Nuevo Extremo, Buenos Aires 1999.
 Italian edition by Sperling & Kupfer Editori, Milan, Italy, 2001, 164pp. Translated by Gina Maneri. Collection: "Continente Desaparecido", directed and coordinated by Gianni Minà . The book summons a series of interviews including: Ariel Dorfman, Eduardo Galeano, Ana María Shua, Martín Caparrós, Fernando Birri, Aida Bortnik, Roberto Cossa, Liliana Hecker, Federico Luppi, Hector Olivera, Nico Orengo, Dalmiro Saenz, Gianni Minà and others. One of the recurrent themes thought the book is the idea of exile, Peronism, and the political turmoil in Argentina during the 1970s. The interviews were previously documented by the author on a documentary film on same subject. There are also a few chapters, introduction and epilogue by Montes-Bradley with a significant number of footnotes and references. The book also includes correspondence between Osvaldo Soriano and Adolfo Bioy Casares, Julio Cortázar and Juan Gelman.
 trad. "I know Its All Lies". Short Stories. Some of the short stories included in this compilation have been originally published in literary magazines. Foreword by Osvaldo Bayer. 199 pp. 23 cm. Foreword by Osvaldo Bayer. Design by Oscar "Negro" Díaz.
Senxo, Selected Poems. Editorial Grupo Archivo de Comunicación, New York, 1984. Foreword by Armando Tejada Gómez. Out of print.
Journalism.
Montes-Bradley has contributed to the following publications: El País, Babelia, "Les cinemas de la Amerique Latine" by the "Association Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse" France; "La Jornada", México; the monthly review "Latinoamérica e Tutto il Sud dell Mondo", Italy; and in Argentina to the literary magazine "Esperando a Godot"; the art-magazine "Revista Lote", Venado Tuerto, Suplemento "Radar" published by "Página/12", "El Amante de cine", "Diario Perfil," "Revista Ñ" Clarin, "Critica de Argentina"; and La Nación. Montes-Bradley was a frequent collaborator with the literary blog "Nación Apache."
His interventions in the media can be classified as a. In-depth articles on subjects as diverse as the life of Dean Reed in the Soviet Union, and the aftermath of the Battleship Potemkin; b. Sudden and brief pieces on current affairs with a particular emphasis on domestic politics in Argentina. One of Montes-Bradley's bull's eyes of choice appears to be the National Institute of Cinematography (INCAA) a government institution repeatedly denounced for corruption, censorship, and the discretionary handling of public resources. c. Letters to the Editor. In this, the most singular form of interventionism Montes-Bradley has written a considerable number of "letters to the editors" becoming a regular "de facto" columnist.
Photography.
Montes-Bradley's photography has been recognized by the National Council on Public History with the "Outstanding Public History Project Award" as part of the exhibit "The Mere Distinction of Colour" produced by James Madison's Montpelier. His work appeared in "The Atlantic", The Washington Post, La Nacion, The New York Times,The Independent, Deutsche Welle, Diario Clarin other newspapers and magazines as well as commemorative books such as "Escenas de la memoria. La Casa Argentina en la voz de sus antiguos residentes", and "Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center 20th Anniversary". His portraits and filmed interviews with Research and Clinical Faculty are preserved at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, the University of Virginia under The Eduardo Montes-Bradley Photograph and Film Collection.