Exclusive: Out of the Cannes market, Sony Pictures Classics has bought North American rights and a raft of international territories on Walter Salles’ anticipated first narrative feature in more than a decade: I’m Still Here.
In I’m Still Here, the acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker, known for critical hits such as Oscar nominee Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries, has tackled the emotional and powerful true story of a woman who is forced into activism after her husband is captured by the military regime in Brazil in the 1960s.
The film reunites Salles with his Oscar-nominated Central Station star Fernanda Montenegro, one of Brazil’s most acclaimed actors, and her daughter Fernanda Torres, with whom the filmmaker has worked multiple times. It also reunites the filmmaker with SPC who previously released 1998 hit Central Station, which won the Berlin Golden Bear and was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Montenegro...
In I’m Still Here, the acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker, known for critical hits such as Oscar nominee Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries, has tackled the emotional and powerful true story of a woman who is forced into activism after her husband is captured by the military regime in Brazil in the 1960s.
The film reunites Salles with his Oscar-nominated Central Station star Fernanda Montenegro, one of Brazil’s most acclaimed actors, and her daughter Fernanda Torres, with whom the filmmaker has worked multiple times. It also reunites the filmmaker with SPC who previously released 1998 hit Central Station, which won the Berlin Golden Bear and was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Montenegro...
- 5/28/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
“Call Me By Your Name” and “The Lighthouse” producer Rodrigo Teixeira of Rt Features, and Lourenço Sant’Anna, also a producer on “The Lighthouse,” have teamed with Prano Bailey-Bond on “Things We Lost in the Fire,” her follow-up to her breakout Sundance title “Censor.”
Bailey-Bond will write the screenplay, which is based on a short story of the same name from Argentine journalist and novelist Mariana Enriquez, with Anthony Fletcher. Alan Terpins is serving as executive producer.
In the film, a terrorized female community resorts to ever more extreme actions in response to male violence. The story marries elements of horror and feminism in a subversive commentary on the modern day beauty myth; a dark vision of a society where women take back control of their image in the most drastic manner imaginable.
In 2017, Enriquez’s “Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego” was translated into English by writer Megan McDowell,...
Bailey-Bond will write the screenplay, which is based on a short story of the same name from Argentine journalist and novelist Mariana Enriquez, with Anthony Fletcher. Alan Terpins is serving as executive producer.
In the film, a terrorized female community resorts to ever more extreme actions in response to male violence. The story marries elements of horror and feminism in a subversive commentary on the modern day beauty myth; a dark vision of a society where women take back control of their image in the most drastic manner imaginable.
In 2017, Enriquez’s “Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego” was translated into English by writer Megan McDowell,...
- 7/7/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Rt Features has Murina in Director’s Fortnight, Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island in Competition.
Prano Bailey-Bond, whose Censor played in Sundance and Berlin Panorama this year, will write and direct Things We Lost In The Fire, a dark feminist take on the beauty myth for Rt Features.
The drama is based on the short story of the same name by Argentinian journalist and novelist Mariana Enriquez about a terrorised female community which resorts to increasingly extreme actions in response to male violence.
Bailey-Bond is co-writing the adapted screenplay with her Censor co-writer Anthony Fletcher. The story combines elements of...
Prano Bailey-Bond, whose Censor played in Sundance and Berlin Panorama this year, will write and direct Things We Lost In The Fire, a dark feminist take on the beauty myth for Rt Features.
The drama is based on the short story of the same name by Argentinian journalist and novelist Mariana Enriquez about a terrorised female community which resorts to increasingly extreme actions in response to male violence.
Bailey-Bond is co-writing the adapted screenplay with her Censor co-writer Anthony Fletcher. The story combines elements of...
- 7/7/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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.
Mariana Lima, one of Brazil’s most acclaimed actresses with credits that include Dark Days and Father’s Chair, will play Paiva. Murilo Hauser, who scripted the 2019 Un Certain Regard winning-Invisible Life, adapted the screenplay, with Salles overseeing the development process.
Videofilmes, Mact, and Rt Features are producing.
The film is set to begin production in Brazil early next year, with Library Pictures International providing financing. CAA Media Finance will broker domestic distribution while Wild Bunch is handling international sales, excluding Brazil. The sellers...
Mariana Lima, one of Brazil’s most acclaimed actresses with credits that include Dark Days and Father’s Chair, will play Paiva. Murilo Hauser, who scripted the 2019 Un Certain Regard winning-Invisible Life, adapted the screenplay, with Salles overseeing the development process.
Videofilmes, Mact, and Rt Features are producing.
The film is set to begin production in Brazil early next year, with Library Pictures International providing financing. CAA Media Finance will broker domestic distribution while Wild Bunch is handling international sales, excluding Brazil. The sellers...
- 6/30/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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