During a post-screening Q&A, "I'm Still Here" director Walter Salles and star Fernanda Torres talk about the relevance of their film to the past and future of Brazil.
Walter Salles 'I'm Still Here' opens in limited release at the indie film box office after a heady run since star Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe for Best Actress.
Based on the real-life 1971 disappearance of Brazilian Congressman Rubens Paiva, the movie, directed by Walter Salles, is a profile of one family's resolve.
Both Torres and Salles are in the mix for Oscar nominations for best actress and best international film this year.
Playing the wife of a disappeared political prisoner, Torres exhibits the ways mothers must carry on after tragedy
In Walter Salles' Oscar-shortlisted film I'm Still Here, set in 1970 at the height of Brazil's military dictatorship, Fernanda Torres plays an extraordinary mother: Eunice Paiva, who was left to raise five children alone after the disappearance of her activist husband Rubens (played by Selton Mello).
Political resistance in movies often takes the form of protest, hunger strike or armed uprising. But in Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here,” it comes in the shape of a defiant smile.
Actress Fernanda Torres knew her friend, the director Walter Salles, intended to make a film based on a real-life Rio de Janeiro woman who fought for justice for her family after Brazil’s ...
Sharon Waxman, Fernanda Torres and Walter Salles (Todd Williamson) “I became very good friends with the middle sister of the five kids, and I was enamored by the family,” he said during a ...
Selton Mello, who appears in Brazilian awards season hopeful 'I’m Still Here,' and Ione Skye have also joined the Columbia feature.
Beloved actor Fernanda Torres breathes life into the role of a grieving woman living under a military dictatorship in this politically charged drama.
T he great Brazilian actress and writer Fernanda Torres recently won a surprise Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Dramatic Role, for Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here. Because t