I'm Still Here: Film Screening

Join us for a film screening of Oscars 2025 Best International Feature Film, I’m Still Here.

Based on the book, Ainda Estou Aqui, by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, and directed by Walter Salles, the film is based on the true story of the Paiva family as they navigated life during military rule in Brazil. A military junta governed the country between 1964 and 1985, and during this period, the police punished opposition to the government with incarceration, torture, and even death. After the film screening, Baylor professors Moisés Park, Marilia Corrêa, João Chaves, Gustavo Costa, and Drew University doctoral student Fellipe Dos Anjos will facilitate a short conversation and Q&A with the audience about the film.

Moisés Park is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Baylor University. He holds a PhD from UC Davis (2010). His research interests are pop culture, cinema, masculinity, and ethnic studies. He is author of twenty-four articles and book chapters, the monograph Figuraciones del Deseo y Conyunturas Generacionales en Literatura y Cine Postdictatorial (2014), and two poetry books (El verso cae al aula (2017) and Poemas marciales (2019)). He co-edited Here Comes the Flood: Perspectives of Gender, Sexuality, and Stereotype in the Korean Wave (2022). He is working on a monograph about Korea and Latin America.

João B. Chaves is an assistant professor at the Department of Religion at Baylor University. His research focuses on the history of religion in the Américas, the influence of U.S. Protestantism in Latin America, and the development of Latin American/Latinx religious networks in the United States. Dr. Chaves is an award-winning author whose books include Migrational Religion: Context and Creativity in the Latinx Diaspora (Baylor University Press, 2021), The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South: Southern Baptist Missionaries and the Shaping of Latin American Evangelicalism (Mercer University Press, 2022), and Remembering Antônia Teixeira: A Story of Missions, Violence, and Institutional Hypocrisy (Eerdmans, 2023), co-authored with Dr. Mikeal Parsons. Dr. Chaves also co-edited a book with Dr. T. Laine Scales, titled Baptists and the Kingdom of God: Global Perspectives (Baylor University Press, 2023). He is also part of a research team working with award-winning filmmakers on a forthcoming documentary exploring the connections between Christian Nationalisms in Brazil and the United States.

Marilia Corrêa is an assistant professor at the History Department. As a historian of Modern Latin America, with an emphasis on Cold War politics, she is currently working on a book manuscript examining the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985) and its persecution of military officers and soldiers labeled as subversives. She studies how military regimes regulate and restructure sectors not traditionally associated with political or social dissent and explore how the traumas the dictatorship inflicted onto expelled servicemen altered their sense of belonging in ways that transcended the era of dictatorship itself. Her articles appeared in the American Journal of Legal History and The Americas. In 2024 she published an book chapter in Portuguese titled ““Subversão” nas forças armadas: perseguição militar, ditadura, e o arquivo,” in the book Registros dos autoritarismos: pesquisas sobre arquivos inéditos das ditaduras no Brasil e na América Latina.

Gustavo Costa is Lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese at Baylor’s Modern Languages and Cultures Department, where he teaches language courses and pop culture in Brazil and Latin America. His research interests are in urban narratives in Latin American and Brazilian literature, popular culture and contemporary cultural production, and foreign language pedagogy in Spanish and Portuguese. He has published “Transcending Cultural Borders: The Impact of Mexican Telenovelas in Brazil” at the Revista Latino-Americana de Estudos em Cultura e Sociedade, “El flâneur de Plateros: La Capital Mexicana del Siglo XIX en el Poema La Duquesa Job de Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera” in the Revista Regit, and “La Urbe Como Escenario de la Violencia de Género en los Cuentos ‘interior <L>’ de Julio Ramón Ribeyro y ‘a língua do p’ de Clarice Lispector,” at Revista Lampejo.

Fellipe dos Anjos is a PhD Student in Religion and Society at Drew University and a member of the Hispanic Theological Initiative. Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he holds a bachelor's degree in Theology and a master's degree in Sciences of Religion from the Methodist University of São Paulo—where he is scheduled to defend a doctoral dissertation (ABD). He is currently researching how contemporary ecological catastrophes, such as the collapse of the dams in Mariana and Brumadinho (MG), are actual events of the ancestral catastrophe of colonization and the effect of a long-lasting cosmopolitical warfare between different ways of dwelling the land: Christian-colonial-racial-capitalist versus traditional-indigenous.