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Oscar Winner Walter Salles Talks Impact of ‘I’m Still Here’ on Brazilian Youths and Upcoming Project on Brazilian Soccer Player Sócrates at Doha Qumra Workshop
Oscar winner Walter Salles on impact of 'I’m Still Here' on Brazilian youths and upcoming project on Brazilian Soccer Player Sócrates
Oscar-winner Walter Salles, fresh from scoring the best international feature statuette for “I’m Still Here,” discussed the impact of his political drama on youth audiences in Brazil and underlined the importance of cinema as “an extraordinary tool of resistance” while attending the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra workshop in Qatar. As for what’s on the horizon, Salles, speaking to journalists, said he is editing a five-part doc series on Brazilian footballer and political activist Sócrates Brasileiro that he plans to finish by the year’s end. Salles also recalled telling Redford that “In order to be faithful to that book, you have to basically work with non-actors or actors who are starting out” and that “you really have to do the long journey, which means that it was a complex project,” he said.
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