I’M STILL HERE
Section: Special Presentations
Director: Walter Salles
Screenwriter: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega
Logline: The latest from The Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles focuses on the real-life story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), whose terrifying experience of sequestration and loss during Brazil’s military dictatorship transformed her into an activist, lawyer, and hero.
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Panelists: Walter Salles, Fernanda Torres, Selron Mello
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Premiered: Sept 9 (North American Premiere)
Key Quote: “I came back to Brazil in 1959, that is five years into the military dictatorship… and then I was embraced by [the Paiva] family. I remember vividly how their house was open to the world, the windows were open, there was no key on the door. Imagine that during a military dictatorship? And the idea in that house was to somehow replicate or embody the possibility of a different Brazil. A Brazil that would be more inclusive, would be more democratic, would be more musical, would be more inventive… One day, I arrived there and the house was shut, there was military police around, we couldn’t get in and that somehow defined a before and an after in the life of everyone who had been in that house.” – Walter Salles
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