FORMATION

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INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF FILM AND TELEVISION - EICTV CUBA, 2019
Master in Creative Documentary


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PROJECTS

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ARROW FOR A STONE HEART

 

 Project under development

 Hybrid Documentary | 80 ' | Brazil

Direction Luiza Calagian and Vinicius Toro

 

While Poty arrives in the center of São Paulo to sell her baskets, Tiago, leader of the same indigenous people, participates in political negotiations about their traditional lands on the heart of the metropolis. In the midst of their incursions, the history of the city is told through the indigenous view, flowing between everyday, dreamlike and mythological narratives. Finally, fantastic realism spreads, while the Guarani, among the living, the dead and the gods, invade the city and symbolically reclaim the territory that was brutally assaulted.

 

Selected for the DOCLAB Laboratory - DOCSP 2019

 

Prize for participation in FICG 34 - 16 Coproduction Meeting of the Guadalajara International Film Festival

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HUMMINGBIRD, SQUIRREL AND CROCODILE


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Project in development

Short documentary | 25 ' | Cuba


Direction Luiza Calagian, production Maria Félix Morales

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Three children who live near a wellspring spend the day playing in the forest, but never dare
 approaching the water. While they play, their imagination flies and reveals an unknown universe,
 populated by mysterious creatures, who may be themselves.

 

PIRAGUI - THE OWNER OF FISH


 

short documentary | 21 '| Brazil | 2016
Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology - LISA | USP

Storyline, direction, photography and editing Luiza Calagian


The film, made in partnership with a group of young women from the Tenonde Porã village, in São Paulo, mixes fiction and documentary in a narrative about the Piragui, spirit owner of fish in the Guarani Mbya tradition.


Exibited at the festivals ForumDoc.bh, 2017; Cine Kurumin - Indigenous Film Festival, 2017;
2nd Festival Woman's Place is at the Cinema, 2018

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