April 13, 2025
Presented by MACON FILM GUILD
History/Drama/Biography. 2hr. 15 min [PG-13]
Directed by Walter Salles
“Walter Salles’ superb factually-based film -- he was a real-life friend of the Paiva family as a teenager -- is an engrossing, affecting tribute to a formidable woman and her family." -Screen International
I'M STILL HERE, is an academy award and golden globe nominated film that is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's best-selling memoir. Brazil, 1971: a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence.