Banner image: Eunice Paiva (L, on the sofa) and Rubens Paiva (on her left) surrounded by their children and an unknown person. Exact date unknown, probably mid-60s.

What makes I’m Still Here, which recently broke the US box office record for a Brazilian movie, even more powerful is its basis in reality.Salles renders the real story of Eunice Paiva and her ...

When the celebrated Brazilian author Marcelo Paiva started writing his 2015 memoir Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here), he wanted to record his family history as his mother, Eunice Paiva, started ...

Eunice Paiva and her family weren’t even able to grieve properly, as their husband and father wasn’t officially dead. What’s more, the family was left without a stable source of income, ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Always hold on to hope. I’m Still Here tells the true story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), who lived under Brazil’s military dictatorship with her family in the 1960 ...

In I’m Still Here, Torres plays Eunice Paiva, a mother of five and wife to former Brazilian congressman Rubens Paiva.When Rubens is “disappeared” by the Brazilian regime, during the country ...

TheWrap magazine: The Brazilian director explains the power and persistence of Eunice Paiva, who fought against a murderous regime in the 1970s . Joe McGovern. December 3, 2024 @ 3:47 PM.

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.

The 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, was taken from ...

W hen the celebrated Brazilian author Marcelo Paiva started writing his 2015 memoir Ainda Eustou Aqui (I’m Still Here), he wanted to record his family history as his mother, Eunice Paiva ...