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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...