| Director: | Walter Salles |
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| Production: | VideoFilmes (Maria Carlota Bruno), RT Features (Rodrigo Teixeira), MACT Productions (Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre)
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| Running Time: | 135’ |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Country: | Brazil, France |
| Main Cast: | Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro
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| Screenplay: | Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega
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| Cinematographer: | Adrian Teijido
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| Editor: | Affonso Gonçalves
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| Production Designer: | Carlos Conti
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| Costume Designer: | Claudia Kopke
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| Music: | Warren Ellis
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| Visual Effects: | Cláudio Peralta
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Cinema
Ainda estou aqui (I’m still here)
Venezia 81 Competition
Synopsis
Brazil, 1971: a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence.
Director’s Statement
When I first read Ainda estou aqui, by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, I was deeply moved. For the first time, the story of the desaparecidos, the people snatched from their lives by the Brazilian dictatorship, was being told from the perspective of those left behind. In the experience of one woman— Eunice Paiva, a mother of five—there was both the story of how to live through loss and a mirror of the wound left on a nation. It was also personal: I knew this family and was friends with the Paiva children. Their house remains etched in my memory. During the seven years we spent creating Ainda estou aqui, life in Brazil veered dangerously close to the dystopia of the 1970s—which made it all the more urgent to tell this story.
Production/Distribution
PRODUCTION 1: VideoFilmes - Maria Carlota Bruno
Rua Aníbal de Mendonça, 151, Ipanema
22410050, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tel. 55 2130940810
mariacarlota@videofilmes.com.br
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videofilmes_produtora/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/videofilmesprod/
PRODUCTION 2: RT Features – Rodrigo Teixeira
Rua Joaquim Antunes, 177
05415010, São Paulo, Brazil
Tel. 55 1130605700
rodrigo@rtfeatures.com.br
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rtfeatures/
PRODUCTION 3: MACT Productions - Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre
41 rue de l université
75007, Paris, France
Tel. 33 145491010
mact@mactprod.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mactproductions/
WORLD SALES: Esther Devos - Goodfellas SAS
18 All. des Orgues de Flandre
75009, Paris, France
edevos@goodfellas.film
ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION: Giulio Bruno - Bim Distribuzione
Via Lorenzo Magalotti, 15
00197, Roma, Italy
Tel. 39 328 4789895
gbruno@bimfilm.com
PRESS OFFICE WORLD: Maria Rosaria Giampaglia
STUDIO GIAMPAGLIA – LOCURCIO
Via della Cisa 5
00161, Roma, Italy
Tel. 39 3498696141
scrivi@emmeperdue.com
PRESS OFFICE ITALY: Martina Riva
STUDIO GIAMPAGLIA – LOCURCIO
Via della Cisa 5
00161, Roma, Italy
Tel. 39 347 482 8978
