Hot Cannes Title: Walter Salles To Direct ‘I’m Still Here,’ A Wife’s Battle To Solve Husband’s Disappearance At Hands Of Brazil Military Regime
EXCLUSIVE: Walter Salles will direct and Mariana Lima will star in I’m Still Here, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s best-selling memoir about his mother Eunice Paiva, a housewife forced to reinvent herself as an activist when her husband fell victim to the military regime that took control of Brazil in 1964. Her husband became among many who were tortured and disappeared with no due process.