Directed by Walter Salles and based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir, I’m Still Here transports us to Rio de Janeiro in the early 1970s when Brazil’s dictatorship sought to exert its authority through detentions and disappearances. The film takes focus on Eunice Paiva, whose experiences transformed her into an activist, lawyer, and hero.
Opening remarks will provide an introduction to the film contextualizing it within Brazil’s history and anti-fascist movements.
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Presented with Latin American & Caribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN), a democratic, non-profit, independent organization based in Toronto. LACSN brings together grassroots groups, that carry out solidarity work.
Walter Salles is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. Salles’s The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), a biographical film about the 1952 journey of Ernesto “Che” Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado across South America, received two Academy Awards nominations and won the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language. Linha de passe (2008), co-written and directed by Salles and Daniela Thomas, won the Best Actress Prize for Sandra Corveloni at the Festival de Cannes. In 2009, Salles received the Robert Bresson Award at the Venice International Film Festival for his body of work. I’m Still Here (2024), a project developed over several years, reunites Salles and his longtime collaborators, Montenegro and Fernanda Torres, and had its premiere at Venice.
