All roads in the Brazilian film industry seem to lead to lead to Marcelo Rubens Paiva, and he considers many of the people he has worked with in the last 40-odd years of his life to be family. By ...

Marcelo Rubens Paiva on the Oscar-nominated adaptation of his Book ‘I’m Still Here': "It really is a universal film" ...

I'm Still Here is among the most brilliant but harrowing movies to have been recognized this awards season. But what's the significance of its ending?

Rubens Paiva really was the subject of a high-profile disappearance case linked to Brazil’s military regime. The movie is based on a memoir by novelist Marcelo Paiva, the son of Rubens and ...

Marcelo Rubens Paiva, a popular author in Brazil for four decades, has had intense days and exchanges since the movie based on his 2015 book "I'm Still Here" became a box-office success.

When Walter Salles first read the novel “I’m Still Here,” written by his childhood friend Marcelo Rubens Paiva, it took him back to his adolescence. A time when Brazil hadn’t completely ...

The chief focus of Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s book is essentially his mother’s quiet heroism — first as she single-handedly shoulders the responsibility of keeping the family together and ...

In his memoir, which inspired the film, Eunice’s son, writer Marcelo Rubens Paiva, notes that his mother’s dedication to Indigenous law emerged after an initially promising career in family ...

MARCELO RUBENS PAIVA: I’ve written about 10 books and some plays, and 50% of them have been adapted for a movie. I don’t know why, but the way I write is attractive for people involved in cinema.