Interviews With "I'm Still Here" Director Walter Salles And Stars Fernanda Torres & Selton Mello

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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"I'm Still Here" had its world premiere at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival, where it received strong reviews for its true story about a mother (Fernanda Torres) and activist coping with the forced disappearance of her husband, the dissident politician Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello), during the military dictatorship in Brazil. Adapted from Marcelo Rubens Paiva's 2015 memoir of the same name, the script won the Best Screenplay award at Venice and has gone on to receive multiple nominations for Best International Feature Film (it is Brazil's official selection for the Oscar in this category at the 97th Academy Awards) and won Torres the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama. Director Walter Salles (who previously directed Torres's mother, Fernanda Montenegro, who also stars in this film, to an Oscar-nominated performance in "Central Station" in 1998), Torres and Mello were all kind enough to spend some time talking with Ema Sasic and me about their work on the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from Sony Pictures Classics and is up for your consideration at this year's Academy Awards in all eligible categories, including Best International Feature, Best Actress (Torres), and Best Adapted Screenplay. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director for I'm Still Here, Walter Sallies, and MSSASIC's interviews with the film stars, Fernando Torres, and Selton Mello.
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0:31.6	Amanda!
0:32.6	Hand!
0:33.6	What I'm pooh, pass.
0:35.6	Walter, a pleasure. I've been wanting to have this interview for a very, very long time,
0:42.4	and I'm glad I finally get to do it with you for I'm still here. Thank you so much for the time.
0:46.5	Thank you, Matt. It's a pleasure to be here.
0:49.0	So a lot of people have already drawn comparisons, you know, spiritually speaking, to your previous
0:56.4	film Central Station, which starred Fernanda Montenegro.
1:00.5	And this film, I'm Still Here, stars both her, but her daughter, Fernanda Torres, and
1:05.8	this amazing performance at the center of it all here.
1:10.4	Curious to know, just how did this casting come to be?
1:16.1	And was this connection like on your mind when going through that process?
1:23.0	Well, Fernando Montenegro was an actress I always wanted to work with.
1:30.7	We spent 10 years finding the right project for it.
1:35.6	And this is when I had the idea of Central Station.
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