Paiva’s advocacy for Indigenous peoples gained national recognition through an article co-authored with Carneiro da Cunha titled “Defend the Pataxós,” published in Folha de S.Paulo in 1983.

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 ...

Eunice Paiva is burdened with managing her new reality as a single mother to five children without a stable income, while coming to terms with the disappearance of her husband 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 ...

Synopsis 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’s-80’s. Her husband, former ...

Some activists are demanding death certificates of those killed during the military dictatorship, which is what Eunice Paiva was able to get for her husband.

'I'm Still Here' is a complex portrait of real-life activist Eunice Paiva Set in early 1970s Brazil under military dictatorship, “I’m Still Here” follows the once-idyllic life of Eunice and ...

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 ...

Though the words of the title most likely refer to the resilience of this Oscar-nominated film’s protagonist, Eunice Paiva (a wide-ranging, powerful portrayal by Fernanda Torres), they might as ...

When 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, started ...