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‘I’m Still Here’ Began As A Personal Story & Turned Into A Cultural Conversation In Brazil – Contenders Los Angeles
I'm Still Here director Walter Salles talks about how the film began as a personal story and turned into a cultural conversation in Brazil.
The real world story behind I’m Still Here, which chronicles how a Brazilian family had their life upended when the patriarch, a former congressman, goes missing in the 1970s, held such a deep personal meaning for director Walter Salles he felt compelled to depict it on film. “When I was 13 years old, I became friends with the five kids of this family,” Salles revealed during a panel conversation at the Deadline Contenders Film event on Saturday alongside lead actress Fernanda Torres, who plays Eunice Paiva, who reinvented herself as an activist following her husband’s disappearance. “People are staying in the film until the very end of the credits and they’re writing in social media what the experience was in the screening room that they were at.”
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