NEW RELEASE
LIFE AND MUSIC IN THE AGE OF GEORGE FREDERICK BRISTOW
An immensely ambitious film. I know of no other like it. Necessary, courageous, and undertaken with remarkable enthusiasm and resourcefulness. -- Joseph Horowitz
This film is magnificent, and vividly illustrates how a distinctive American musical style gradually emerged, increasingly breaking away from European models. -- Klaus Martin Kopitz.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE
THE PICCIRILLI FACTOR
Massa, Italy. The Piccirilli Factor: Italian Sculptors and the City Beautiful Movement screens August 4 at 9:15 PM in the gardens of Villa Rinchiostra, in the city where the Piccirilli brothers were born. With director Montes-Bradley in attendance. Other Screenings Coming Soon:
October 8, 2026 | Peoria Fine Arts Society, Illinois. Screening of The Piccirilli Factor, followed by a Q&A with director Montes-Bradley.
September 11, 2026 | Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri. Screening of The Piccirilli Factor, followed by a Q&A with director Montes-Bradley.
WORK IN PROGRESS
PAUL CHALEFF
For more than four decades, Paul Chaleff has worked building a body of ceramic sculpture that bridges the ancient and the contemporary. A new documentary will follows his process, and the world he has built around his work. YouTube Playlist.
IN DEVELOPMENT
THE LOST REPUBLIC
A documentary on the Cuban Republic (1902–1959), the vibrant and contradictory nation that flourished between independence and revolution — and the memory of a world that vanished. An exploration of Music, Fine Arts and Literature in the Republican period. Produced with the support of the University of Miami's Cuban Heritage Collection and FIU's Casa Cuba, with Carolina Calzada serving as Executive Director. YouTube Playlist.
ON LOCATION
HOW VALENCIANS SHAPED NEW YORK
Beneath the tiled vaults of the abandoned New York's abandoned City Hall subway station, one encounters the first unmistakable fingerprint of Valencian ingenuity. The work of Rafael Guastavino. His revolutionary vaulting system quietly transformed the city's architecture, from Grand Central to Carnegie Hall, Ellis Island, and St. John the Divine.
Farther north, The Met welcomed commissions by the young Valencian sculptor Mariano Benlliure through some of its earliest patrons, while Gilded Age collectors began to discover a modern Spain, far removed from the romantic clichés they had inherited.
Meanwhile, in Washington Heights, Archer Milton Huntington founded the Hispanic Society of America, creating what would become the greatest repository of Spanish art outside Spain.
From the tiled vaults beneath Broadway to the galleries of the Hispanic Society, from Grand Central to the Metropolitan Museum, traces of Valencia emerge unexpectedly across Manhattan. Not as a single immigrant's story, but as a remarkable convergence of architecture, sculpture, painting, literature, and patronage that, between the 1880s and the First World War, quietly helped shape New York's cultural identity.
October 8, 2026 | Peoria Fine Arts Society, Illinois. Screening of The Piccirilli Factor, followed by a Q&A with director Montes-Bradley.
September 27 , 2026| Richmond Int'l Film Festival, Virginia. The Art of Joy Brown. Official Selection
September 11, 2026 | Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri. Screening of The Piccirilli Factor, followed by a Q&A with director Montes-Bradley.
August 20, 2026 | Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami. A Tribute to Humberto Calzada.
August 4, 2026 | Villa Rinchiostra, Massa, Tuscany. Screening of The Piccirilli Factor, sponsored by the City of Massa, the Biblioteca Civica Stefano Giampaoli, and Italia Nostra. Free and open to the public. Followed by a Q&A with director Montes-Bradley.
July 21, 2026 | Consulate General of Argentina, Barcelona. Montes-Bradley will deliver a lecture on the 110th anniversary of the first crossing of the Andes by hydrogen balloon (1916), based on the essay Más liviano que el aire by Nelson Montes-Bradley.
May 13, 2026 | Biblioteca Nacional, Auditorio Jorge Luis Borges, Buenos Aires. Screening of Deliciosas perversiones polimorfas.
March 6, 2026 | Kent School, Kent, Connecticut. Screening of The Art of Joy Brown, followed by a Q&A with director Montes-Bradley.
May 10, 2025 | James Monroe's Highland, Charlottesville, Virginia. Public screening of The Piccirilli Factor followed by audience discussion.
November 15, 2024 | Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, Virginia. Screening of Black Fiddlers, followed by a Q&A with director Montes-Bradley.
June 10 & 17, 2024 | Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. NEH-funded workshop "Creative Spaces/Contested Spaces: Reinterpreting Italian American Public Art in New York City." Screening of The Piccirilli Factor.
May 6, 2024 | Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, New York. Screening and Director Talk: The Italian Factor.
March 26, 2024 | Italian Cultural Institute of New York. Presentation and screening preview of The Piccirilli Factor, followed by Q&A.
January 19, 2024 | Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville. Screening of Black Fiddlers
June 27, 2023 | New York Public Library. The Piccirilli Factor. Hosted by The Victorian Society of New York. Jefferson Market Library.
May 24–26, 2016 | The British Academy, London. Screening of Julian Bond followed by panel discussion with Professor Clayborne Carson (Stanford University) and Judy Richardson (SNCC), chaired by Professor Sharon Monteith, University of Nottingham.
