Sharon Waxman, Fernanda Torres and Walter Salles (Todd Williamson) “I became very good friends with the middle sister of the five kids, and I was enamored by the family,” he said during a ...

Director Walter Salles with actress Fernanda Torres, left, on the set of “I’m Still Here,” for which Torres won the Golden Globe for best actress in a drama on Jan. 5, 2025.

In Walter Salles’ Oscar-shortlisted film I’m Still Here, set in 1970 at the height of Brazil’s military dictatorship, Fernanda Torres plays an extraordinary mother: Eunice Paiva, who was ...

In crafting the story of "I'm Still Here," which chronicles the forced disappearance of a husband and father during the military dictatorship in Brazil, filmmaker Walter Salles didn't have to ...

Actress Fernanda Torres knew her friend, the director Walter Salles, intended to make a film based on a real-life Rio de Janeiro woman who fought for justice for her family after Brazil’s ...

Walter Salles, Fernanda Torres at the Deadline Contenders Film: Los Angeles held at the Directors Guild of America on November 16, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Gilbert Flores/Deadline.

When director Walter Salles asked Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres to read the script for “I’m Still Here,” she assumed her old friend just wanted a second opinion. Back in 1999, Torres ...