Luiza Calagian

Luiza Calagian is a director and Director of Photography from São Paulo, Brazil. Graduated in Cinematography at the International School of Film and Television, EICTV, Cuba, where she also took the (...) Masters in Creative Documentary. Studied Social Sciences at the University of São Paulo, focusing on the areas of visual anthropology and ethnology. Her first short film, Ava Mocoi, premiered and was awarded at the 68th ISSF Oberhausen, and her second, Anba Dlo, premiered at the 75th Berlinale and won the jury prize at the Hong Kong ISFF. Her work as a director and DOP has been screened and awardes in some of the most important festivals in the world. Her first feature film as a screenwriter, director and cinematographer, Arrow for a Stone Heart, is currently in post production stage, and was made in collaboration with a Guarani Mbya indigenous community from São Paulo, with whom she has worked for over ten years. Luiza is the founder of the independent São Paulo-based production company Mata Fechada Films. Believes in the craft of cinema as spell, capable of transforming reality and building bridges between humans, nature and spirituality, enchanting the world.