Warren Ellis (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Hell or High Water, Blonde, Mustang, The Road) has provided the original score for the upcoming period drama I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui). The film is directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, On the Road) and stars Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello. The movie based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s bestselling memoir is set in Brazil, 1971 as the country faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship and tells the story of a mother of five children who is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government. Murilo Hauser (Invisible Life) and Heitor Lorega (Mariner of the Mountains) wrote the screenplay. Rodrigo Teixeira (Call Me By Your Name, The Witch), Maria Carlota Bruno (No Intenso Agora) and Martine De Clermont-Tonnerre (Central Station) wrote the screenplay. I’m Still Here will premiere this coming weekend at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and is also set to screen next month at the Toronto International Film Festival. Sony Pictures Classics will release the movie in U.S. theaters in the coming month.
Ellis’ other recent projects include Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy (co-scored with Nick Cave), which was released in Australia last year (following a premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival) and in the UK earlier this year and is awaiting a domestic release date.
