The writer met with the president () at the Planalto Palace on Wednesday (30). According to him, the meeting was informal, as both are “longtime friends”.
“It was owed this meeting from the Oscars,” he told reporters.
The film “”, based on the author’s homonymous work, won the category of best international film in the awards, portraying the story of his family, persecuted by the military dictatorship in Brazil.
Accompanied by nephew Chico Paiva, who works at the Ministry of Development and Industry, they attended the president with the first lady, and the Minister of Culture, Margareth Menezes.
The writer is the son of former federal deputy Rubens Paiva, killed by the Brazilian state during the dictatorial period, and lawyer and activist Eunice Paiva, who fought for the recognition of her husband’s death by the military, which was only obtained 25 years later. In the movie, she was played by Fernanda Torres, who secured the Golden Globe for best actress for the performance.
The meeting was marked by Lula’s head of personal cabinet, Marco Aurélio Marcola, and was not on the president’s official agenda.
In February this year, Lula gathered government officials in one, to watch I am still here, at the time the movie was in the race for the awards. Chico Paiva was at the time.
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