I finally got around to watching I'm Still Here, and it's a great movie deserving of its Oscar win, but something is bugging ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — If there is a still open wound in Latin America, it is that of the tens of thousands of disappeared people ...
Most people worry about making sure their kids get into good schools.” Under “ competitive authoritarianism ,” as defined by ...
I'm Still Here is based on a memoir, Ainda Estou Aqu (meaning I'm still here), by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Eunice Paiva's son, who began writing it while his mother was going through Alzheimer's disease.
But the familial connections don't stop there. In I'm Still Here, Torres plays Eunice Paiva, the real-life wife to progressive Brazilian politician Rubens Paiva, who was kidnapped and murdered by ...
"I'm Still Here" -- which on Sunday won Brazil's first Oscar, in the best international film category -- traces a family's painful history during the country's military dictatorship, forcing a ...
The critically acclaimed film ‘I’m Still Here’ focuses on the personal and political history of Eunice Paiva but offers glimpses of her Indigenous rights work as a lawyer — a rarity in ...
Actress Fernanda Torres was also nominated for an Oscar for her leading role as Eunice Paiva. Her husband, Rubens Paiva, had been a congressman before the U.S.-backed coup d'etat in 1964.
“I’m Still Here,” Walter Salles’ searing drama about the life of Brazilian lawyer and activist Eunice Paiva, has triumphed at the 97th annual Academy Awards to win Best International ...
The Walter Salles film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a former leftist Brazilian congressman who, at the height of the country’s military dictatorship in 1971 ...
Marcelo Rubens Paiva, a popular author in Brazil for four decades, has had intense days and exchanges since the movie based on his 2015 book “I’m Still Here” became a box-office success ...