Heritage Film Project (Firm)
Publisher
Heritage Film Project
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The film is made in part of a series of in-depth, on-camera, conversations with Poet Laureate Rita Dove-conducted and recorded by Eduardo Montes-Bradley between September 2012, and October 2013. These conversations were later edited using with hundreds of still images and several hours of home movies from the Dove family's collection.. The intimacy of the dialogue accounts for a unique, and very personal insight into the wide range of Dove's artistic...
Publisher
Heritage Film Project
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
John Borden Evans works year-round in his atelier in North Garden, Va. where I approached him for the first time with the idea of a film. The initial concept was to expose his work from the perspective of four seasons and we started production last autumn. However, the following winter I knew that the film was going to be all about cold, snow, isolation and the life on the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.. "White" is about an artist, and a way...
Publisher
Heritage Film Project
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the opening scene of the documentary, the physicist Raul Baragiola speculates about time and eternity as he wonders amongst the centenaria graves at the cemetery of the University of Virginia : "Maybe there is a universe out there were all the times are possible, and all the spaces are possible, and what we don't have is the ability to go through paths in that universe to look for different things. You can't look for your grandfather in there because...
4) Evita
Publisher
Heritage Film Project
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Long after Evita was embalmed and secretly buried under a fictitious name in Milan, the former First Lady of Argentina once again was catapulted to fame after Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical. A few years later, Alan Parker's movie adaptation of the same would contribute the necessary ingredients to transform a historical character into a Hollywood fantasy of mythical proportions. But the complexity of the circumstances surrounding her life, her...
Publisher
Heritage Film Project
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Monroe Hill" unearths the history of the site that contains the last remaining structures of the late 18th century southern plantation. These surviving structures are silent witnesses to Monroe's struggle as a farmer and a politician from the late 1780's until the laying of the cornerstone at the University of Virginia on October 6, 1817.. The film includes the chapter of James Monroe's life as Minister to France and his relationship with Thomas...
Publisher
Heritage Film Project
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement is a portrait of social activist and former Georgia legislator in which Julian Bond approaches the Civil Rights Movement from a personal perspective. "Bond's father was the first African-American president of Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, and the family hosted black luminaries in education and the arts, but Bond recalls growing up in the era of "separate but equal" laws"....
Publisher
Heritage Film Project
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Explores the legacy of African Americans who shaped the cultural landscape of American folklore. Director Eduardo Montes-Bradley traces the personal and family stories of violin players of African descent throughout the country, seeking common threads and throughlines. Notable performers such as David Roberts, Earl White, and Rhiannon Giddens share their individual journeys and music, and local historians and academics offer scholarly approaches that...
9) J.J. Lankes
Publisher
Heritage Film Project
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This documentary explores the life and work of the brilliant artist who illustrated the works of Robert Frost and Sherwood Anderson.
Publisher
Heritage Film Project
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"ALICE" is an intimate portrayal of composer, arranger and teacher Alice Parker whose collaboration with Shaw resulted in nearly 200 choral arrangements of folk songs, spirituals, hymns, and carols. These arrangements are still widely performed today and are popular choices for countless high school, college and community choirs. In this unique documentary, filmmaker Montes-Bradley meets the composer over several days during the winter of her 95th...
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