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.

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.

The movie is based on the 2015 memoirs of Marcelo Paiva, the son of Eunice and Rubens who features as one of its characters, ...

Brazilian novelist Marcelo Rubens Paiva, the author of the book that served as the basis for the film, "I'm Still Here," speaks during an interview at his home in Sao Paulo, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025.

Rubens Paiva really was the subject of a high-profile disappearance case linked to Brazil’s military regime. The movie is ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Right) Marcelo Rubens Paiva, writer, son of Eunice Paiva and Rubens Paiva, at Venice International Film Festival, 2024. Images by Adam Chitayat via Wikimedia Commons ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) and Harald ...

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 ...