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 ...

In the past, the only Latin American countries from which Academy Award winning movies came from included Argentina, Chile ...

It’s anchored by a remarkable performance in the central role of Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens and mother of the family, who’s left to pick up the pieces following her husband’s arrest.

Eunice Paiva is burdened with managing her new reality as a single mother to five children without a stable income, while ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Montenegro, now 95, even has a small role in “I’m Still Here,” which tells the heroic true story of Brazilian activist Eunice Paiva. “It’s really unbelievable, it’s a very similar path ...

That woman is Eunice Paiva, and in January 1971, her life was turned on its head when military police raided her family’s Rio ...

The latest feature from Walter Salles (“Central Station,” “The Motorcycle Diaries”) tells the remarkable story of Eunice Paiva. Known as a human rights activist in Brazil, Paiva became a ...