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‘I’m Still Here’ Eunice Paiva’s pivotal role in Brazil’s Indigenous & environmental rights

Summary by Conservation News

PORTO ALEGRE — On the set of I’m Still Here (2024), the acclaimed Brazilian film by Walter Salles Jr., supporting actress Angela Ribeiro was approached by a woman with red hair and thin-rimmed glasses. “I came to meet my namesake,” the visitor joked in a light Portuguese accent. The presence of Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, a distinguished Luso-Brazilian scholar specializing in Brazil’s Indigenous peoples, behind the scenes of the production, moved…

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I’m Still Here: a powerful story of the human spirit under dictatorship

Walter Salles is, rather surprisingly, thought to be the third wealthiest film director in the world, after George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, with an estimated net worth of $4.2 billion. Although his films have been successful enough, they are not the source of his riches. He comes from one of the most prominent families in Brazil, his father, Walter Moreira Salles, having been the chairman of Unibanco and twice the Brazilian ambassador to the …

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