The movie focuses on the personal and political story of its protagonist, lawyer Eunice Paiva (1929–2018) whose husband, former Congressman Rubens Paiva, was kidnapped and killed by agents of ...

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 ...

I'm Still Here,' Walter Salles' drama film starring Fernanda Torres, has won Best International Feature Film at the Oscars ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Eunice Facciolla Paiva was the mother of a childhood friend of mine in the late 1970s. To us, ignorant of everything, she was just the "Marcelo's mother," the one who welcomed ...

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 ...

Eunice Paiva kept her husband’s story alive, and I’m Still Here ensures that her own story lives on as well. Leaderboard 2 Chloe Asack is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

It’s 1971, and the beachfront home of the Paiva family, in Rio de Janeiro, is a hub of boisterous children, dancing adults and warm friendships presided over by Eunice Paiva and her husband ...

Walter Salles' 'I'm Still Here' triumphed at the Oscars, snagging Brazil's first Best International Feature Film award. The movie chronicles Eunice Paiva's relentless pursuit of justice under a ...

She had to reinvent herself, just like the country." For Torres, the amazing thing about Eunice Paiva is that she never cared to be recognized or celebrated, but through the power of cinema ...

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 ...