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Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Florida
Filmmaker
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Title/Occupation:  Cinematographer  Director  Editor  Educator  Producer  Writer 
Services Provided:  Graphic/Title Design  Narration/Translation  Post Production Facility  Stock/Archival Footage 
Gender: Male
Race: None
Citizenship: USA
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish

Biography: Montes-Bradley was born in Córdoba, Argentina the son of Sara Kaplan, a piano teacher, and Nelson Montes-Bradley. The family relocated almost immediately to Rosario and three years later to Buenos Aires. Montes-Bradley grew up in the capital city of Argentina surrounded by musicians, poets, composers and artists associated with Discos Qualiton, the record label his father co-funded in the early 60´s. He attended public school, was brought up agnostic and atheist in a pro-socialist environment favored by his parents. In 1973 EM-B enters High School during a highly politicized time in Argentina. The country was undergoing one of it´s most turbulent periods in recent history. Juan Domingo Peron was to return that year from exile in Madrid where he lived with his wife Isabelita under the protection of General Francisco Franco; and the socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a bloody military coup lead by Augusto Pinochetin neighboring Chile. Montes-Bradley, like many high school students at the time, became a full time activist. Three years later, General Jorge Rafael Videla ousted Peron´s widow inaugurating an era of terror which resulted in the death of thousands and thousands more went into exile. Montes-Bradley will frequently recall 1973 as the happiest year of his life: "Not because of anything that I might have believed on then, which I most certainly don´t believe in now, 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." Shortly after the military coup of 1976 -which overthrew the reckless government of Isabel Peron - Montes-Bradley migrated to the United States taking up residence in New York City. In the late seventies he worked as a journalist for [[The Hollywood Reporter]] and El Heraldo del Cine, trade publications in the film industry. His first contribution to film can be traced to Margareta Vinterheden´s Man maste ju leva, Sweden, 1978. During the same period (late seventies early eighties) Montes-Bradley worked in a few propaganda documentaries with the Sandinistas and the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) from El Salvador. In 1984, after the fallout of his first marriage, Montes-Bradley moved to California and started his own publication: The Entertainment Herald, a bilingual trade magazine on film. The Entertainment Herald was financially supported with advertising from Cannon Films a production and distribution conglomerate owned by Menahem Golan and his cousin Yoram Globus. The Entertainment Herald was published for two consecutive years in the mid-eighties. By 1986, EM-B was working as a Director of International Sales for Filmtrust Motion Pictures, a production and distribution company based in Los Angeles, California. In 1989 he teamed-up with Spanish producer Javier Gracia to write, produce and direct at least two thrillers that gained worldwide distribution through Columbia Tri-Star. In 1995 Montes-Bradley married the leading-lady of his third and last fiction flick: El Sekuestro (The Kid Napping). Since then, Montes-Bradley has produced written and directed over forty documentaries on Latin American arts and culture, many under heteronyms based on fictitious characters such as Diana Hunter, the blind director-lady who "one day went deep into to the forest and was forever lost" or Rita Clavel. The actual number of pen-names used by Montes-Bradley is uncertain but frequent and constant in his work as a filmmaker and a writer. Eduardo Montes-Bradley is currently married to producer Soledad Liendo, they have two children.