“I’m Still Here” star Selton Melo will perform “I Don’t Even Know Who I Was,” directed by João Paulo Miranda Maria, following his big studio appearance in Tom Gormican’s “Anaconda.” The film is produced by the label Les Valseurs (“The Curious Gaze of a Flamingo”), which recently won “Un Certain Regard”, and is currently filming in Paris.
“I’m always looking for projects that remind me why I fell in love with movies,” Melo said. “Here in Paris, I have found the perfect partner to shoot and bring to life this exuberant poem, a delicate meditation on grief and cinema in 35mm. João Paulo is one of the most fascinating and talented filmmakers I have met in recent years, and Les Valseurs is the ideal production company with an amazing instinct for crafting films driven by creativity.”
The actor stressed that he is having a “really unique and special moment” in his life and is “discovering new cultures and expanding his creativity into new areas.” “Everything about this project is deeply inspiring and I would say it was one of the biggest artistic challenges I have ever undertaken, expressing myself in four different languages. It required a lot of concentration, but I was so deeply inspired that I will never forget this experience.”
“We have long admired Selton Melo’s work as both an actor and a director, and we are honored by the confidence he has placed in João Paulo Miranda María’s bold new cinematic gesture,” said Le Valseur co-founders Justin Peshubati and Damien Meherbi.
“I’m Still Here” (Courtesy of Globoplay)
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Plot details are still being kept a closely guarded secret, but “I Don’t Even Know Who I Was” continues Melo’s line-up of buzzy projects following his high-profile performance in director Walter Salles’ Oscar-winning drama. The actor also recently filmed his Spanish-language debut in Dominga Sotomayor’s long-awaited “La Perra,” also produced by Rodrigo Teixeira’s RT Features.
Currently residing in France, Miranda Maria won the Cannes Label in 2020 for her debut feature film Memory House, and her short film The Girl Who Danced with the Devil won a special award at the festival in 2016.
French production and distribution company Les Valseurs has a long history of championing Brazilian filmmaking, having previously worked on films such as Nara Normand and Tian’s Heartless, Leonardo Martinelli’s Samba Infinito, and the new film The French Teacher, starring Grace Passau and directed by Ricardo Alves Jr., who is currently premiering his feature directorial debut Our Secrets at the Berlin Film Festival.
