I'm Still Here is based on a memoir, Ainda Estou Aqu (meaning I'm still here), by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Eunice Paiva's son, who began writing it while his mother was going through Alzheimer's disease.

No family demonstrates this reality more clearly than the Paivas in “I’m Still Here,” titled “Ainda Estou Aqui” in Portuguese ...

Brazilian performer Fernanda ... during Carnival week, Brazil’s festive nationwide celebration. “People would go nuts,” says Torres about the reaction that any win for “I’m Still Here ...

Her name was Eunice Paiva, and in “I’m Still Here” she’s played by Fernanda Torres, an accomplished ... [of the movie], where those young people in the car are stopped by the police.

For Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here” is more than just a ... an old person, a young person – all kinds (of people)." But in the years to follow, racial justice movements “started ...

While watching I’m Still Here ... of come full circle for Torres and her real-life mother Fernanda Montenegro, who plays Eunice in the final moments of the film, during the much later stage ...

If you don't already know who Fernanda Torres is, you will now ... of support behind her performance in Walter Salles' I'm Still Here, catapulting them not just onto the international stage ...

But for the 'I’m Still Here' star, bringing the world's attention to a long-suppressed national trauma is the ultimate triumph. By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer Fernanda Torres, the very down ...