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 ...

Eunice Paiva and her family weren’t even able to grieve properly, as their husband and father wasn’t officially dead. What’s ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Always hold on to hope. I’m Still Here tells the true story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), who lived ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now the pair are playing husband and wife Rubens and Eunice Paiva in Salles’ acclaimed drama “I’m Still Here,” based on the memoir by Marcelo Rubens Paiva. Paiva is a well-known writer in ...

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 ...

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 ...