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.

I’m Still Here caps weeks of packed screenings after a Best Actress Golden Globe win by star Fernanda Torres with a theatrical release from Sony Pictures Classics on five screens in New York and LA. The distributor’s The Room Next Door jumps from 44 screens to over 850,

Both Torres and Salles are in the mix for Oscar nominations for best actress and best international film this year.

TheWrap Screening Series: "Everybody became very conscious that the film was not only about who we had been, but who we were and who we eventually wanted to be," Salles says The post Walter Salles and Fernanda Torres: ‘I’m Still Here’ Is Brazil’s Past and Future | Video appeared first on TheWrap.

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

The Brazilan actress pulled off a surprise Golden Globe best actress win for her role in Walter Salles' true-life drama, playing a mother of five who reinvents herself after her husband is "disappeared" by the Brazilian dictatorship in the 1970s.

Brazil’s dark history as a military dictatorship with horrible human rights violations is exposed in the award-winning “I’m Still Here.”

But in Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here,” it comes in the shape of a defiant smile. The film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a former leftist Brazilian ...

In crafting the story of “I’m Still Here,” which chronicles the forced disappearance of a husband and father during the military dictatorship in Brazil, filmmaker Walter Salles didn’t have ...

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 ...