Brazil 1971 – political turmoil, the country in the grip of a tightening military dictatorship. Freedoms curtailed, the ...

Oscar-winning director Walter Salles shared his filmmaking insights at the Doha Film Institute's Qumra, inspiring filmmakers with his approach ...

the daughter of the great Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated for an Oscar for Salles’s breakout weepie Central Station. It’s a long shot, but Torres might follow in her ...

When the firm was launched, Montenegro was an entrepreneur with no active political role, and he transferred ownership of the company to his wife and sons the following year. But questions were raised ...

The first was her own mother — 95-year-old Fernanda Montenegro, perhaps the only actor more legendary than her daughter in the South American country. Montenegro was nominated for 1998’s ...

Oscars in Los Angeles about making history with mom Fernanda Montenegro. Tune into the Oscars March 2 at 4 PM ET / 7 PM PT on ABC. Zelensky Sees Timeline for End of Ukraine War, Will Speak to ...

The film ends, poignantly, on an older Eunice. She’s played by Fernanda Montenegro, the first Brazilian actress nominated for an Oscar, for Salles’s Central Station (1998) – and Torres’s own mother.