Eduardo Montes-Bradley
| Eduardo Montes-Bradley | |
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Portrait, 2010
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| Born |
July 9, 1960 Córdoba, Argentina |
| Nationality | USA |
| Occupation | Filmmaker, photographer, lecturer, writer |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Spouse(s) | Soledad Liendo |
| Relatives | Ricardo Ernesto Montes i Bradley, Eduardo Bradley, Juan Alberto Montes |
| Awards | Jefferson Trust Award Silver Cóndor Best Documentary Richmond International Film Festival. |
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Eduardo Montes-Bradley (born July 9, 1960) is an award winning documentarian, photographer, lecturer, and published author. Montes-Bradley’s documentaries have screened in the official selection of film festivals in the United States and abroad. His films are included in the syllabus of academic courses, screen at Frankfurt Book Fair and cultural centers. Montes-Bradley is a board member with the African American Heritage Center, and member of the International Advisory Committee with the UNESCO Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education. He resides in Charlottesville where he produces photographic work, and documentary films for the Heritage Film Project. His most recent film is Monroe Hill, a documentary-essay tracing the roots and historical context of James Monroe’s first home in Albemarle County. Montes-Bradley is currently working on "The Village", a documentary-essay celebrating art & architecture in the bicentennial of the University of Virginia, and "Lankes, Revival of Printmaking in America"
Montes-Bradley was born Eduardo Esteban Montes-Kaplan in Cordoba to Nelson Montes-Bradley, founder of Discos Qualiton, and Sara Kaplan, from the family of Jewish immigrants from Kishinev (then Bessarabia) and Kamieniec (then Poland). In 1961 the family relocated to Rosario, and by 1965 they were living in Buenos Aires. The cultural ambiance in the capital city, and the family relationship with the arts were crucial during his formative years. Montes-Bradley attended public school, was raised, agnostic and atheist in a progressive, predominantly left-wing radical environment. In 1973 Montes-Bradley is accepted to the Colegio Nacional Nicolás Avellaneda. May 25, 1973, marked the end of seven years of military rule. General Alejandro Agustín Lanusse steps down as president and Héctor José Cámpora is elected on a Peronist ballot. Shortly after Héctor Campora's inauguration, former president and founder of the Peronist Party, General Juan Domingo Perón returns from exile in Madrid where he had spent eighteen years under the protection of Generalisimo Francisco Franco. On September 11, 1973 Salvador Allende is overthrown in a bloody military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet in neighboring Chile. It was a time of profound political turmoil. Montes-Bradley became involved as a student in political activism. The deaths of Pablo Picasso, Pablo Casals, Pablo Neruda and Víctor Jara, all of which occurred during 1973, had a profound impact in his generation. Montes-Bradley will recall 1973 as turning point: "Not because of anything that I might have believed then, which I most certainly don’t necessarily believe in now, convictions come and go; but because of the extraordinary experience of living in a home full of music and poetry within the boundaries of a country at the brink Civil War." Three years later, General Jorge Rafael Videla ousted president Isabelita, thus inaugurating an era of state-sponsored terror and persecution resulting in the death and despairing of thousands, while many were forced into exile.
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